Fake soldier arrested for murder in ogun
Austin Eromosele
The Ogun state Police Command through the Commissioner of Police Ahmed Ilyasu has arrested a fake soldier in the state who allegedly killed a petrol tanker motor boy in Abeokuta.
Ilyasu confirmed this yesterday while presenting the suspect at the command’s headquarters in Abeokuta.
He said the 49-year-old suspect, named Tunde Olatunbosun, allegedly carried out the crime on April 29, 2017, at Leme in Abeokuta, and was arrested on Friday.
He said the incident led to an argument between the suspect and the victim, known as Razaq, at a car wash at Leme.
In his words,
“On April 29, at Alaja car wash in Leme area of Abeokuta, one man named Olatunbosun Tunde, who brought his unregistered Sienna car to wash was engaged in an argument with a motor boy identified as Razaq.
The argument came up over claims by the suspect that the vehicle which the deceased was working on obstructed his own vehicle. All of a sudden, the suspect who was dressed in military camouflage knickers brought out a gun and shot the motor boy at a close range and the boy died on the spot. The suspect hurriedly rushed to his car and fled the scene leaving no trace whatsoever”
The commissioner, however, went further to say that he placed his men on red alert and the police, through the deployment of “technically – driven – intelligence- investigation”, monitored the suspect to the Republic of Togo and lured him back to Nigeria where he was finally arrested.
He went further,
“Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect is a leader of a notorious armed bandit terrorizing Abeokuta and its environs. His gang is said to be into snatching of vehicles, kidnapping and impersonating military officers to dupe unsuspecting members of the public”
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