Commissioner, AIG Aide Implicated In Robbery Mess

Dike In Corporal Uniform

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State have captured one Mr Oliver Dike, 35, a former driver for a former Commissioner of Police (CP) and Assistant Inspector of Police (AIG) on suspicions of being the leader of a gang of thieves who specialized in stealing exotic cars.

New Telegraph informs that Dike otherwise known as Mopol in the underworld was arrested while he was in police uniform at the Sagamu section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by police officers led by Superintendent of Police (SP), Abba Kyari.

Dike was found with a  fake police identity card.

A police source not wanting his name in press said Dike was a  police suspect after two armed robbery suspects; Akinropo Ogunsina and Jimoh Akeem  mentioned his name during interrogation as the receiver of snatched cars.

Akinropo said his team sold Dike two Honda Accord 230 model cars and Sienna bus. Unaware that Akinropo was in custody, Dike repeatedly kept calling demanding more snatched cars.

Akinropo also said Dike bought two cars for N280,000 and requested a Toyota Highlander ‘Jeep,’ Toyota Corolla 2014 model and Honda Accord before his arrest.

Confirming the arrest, Lagos state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kenneth Nwosu said Dike was apprehended in the process of paying N200,000 for the Toyota Highlander.

He told a correspondent that the suspect claimed he was police corporal presenting a  police identity card and in a search of his Abuja home found a full police uniform.

Officers recovered one of the cars, a Honda Accord, bought from Ogunsina in his house.

Dike speaking on his life of crime said, “In 2004, I went to sell motor parts to a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). He is now retired after being promoted to the rank of a Commissioner of Police.

“We became friends. I told him that I would like to work for him as his driver and do some other domestic chores for him. He agreed. I left the motor parts business for my younger brother and started working for the DCP. “I started living in his house. I used to drive him to work and other places. In 2005, he was sent to War College and later became a Commissioner of Police (CP). He retired in 2012.

“After he retired, all his boys, including me, were transferred to the new CP that took over from him. The new CP was later appointed as an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) before he retired. Since then, I stopped working for him.”

Dike also confessed that the ID card found on him was that of a former CP’s orederly named Udeka. He said he was asked by Udeka to retrieve the ID card from Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, where the gang  last worked.

He said he kept the ID card for his criminal activities.  He said the police uniform was “evacuated from the dry cleaner who does the dry cleaning of our master’s uniform in Yenagoa. I brought it to Abuja and kept it in my house.”

In a related development,a former soldier Adokie Tombra, has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out robberies around Mile 2, Festac, Alakija and its environs.

The 43-year-old was said to have been dismissed from the army over unethical conduct. However, he still wore military uniform to evade paying fares on commercial vehicles.