The Edo State Police Command has arrested a Naval officer, Ibrahim Adamu, 25, and a Correctional Service officer, Abdullahi Abdulwahab,26,for alleged car snatching and armed robbery in the state.
The Edo State Public Relations Officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor who parades the suspects, said they were arrested in Army uniform at Ekpoma by the crack team of the command while acting on credible information.
He said the suspects attacked the driver of an unregistered C300 Mercedes Benz car in Sapele, Delta State; snatched the car from him and forced him to transfer N400,000 to their account.
Nwabuzor said the suspects were taken the vehicle to a receiver Alhaji in Abuja for sale when they were arrested by the police in Ekpoma, Edo State
“The suspects have made statements and claimed to be personnel of the Nigerian Navy and Correctional Service respectively”.
Nwabuzor said the vehicle and military uniform were recovered from the suspects
Speaking with newsmen at the state police command where they were paraded, Ibrahim Adamu, who claimed that he was recruited into the Nigeria Navy in 2019, said he was arrested for stealing Mercedes Benz C300 car in Delta State.
“I was recruited into Navy in 2019, I worked k in Lokoja, Kogi State before I was posted to Warri Delta State.
It was when I went on course in Sapele that I got the mind to steal vehicle.
“When I finished my course, Abdullahi told me that he wanted to visit me. When he came, I told him that there was a job that I would want us to do that would fetch us money for us and he agreed.
“We chartered a tricycle from Warri to Sapele for the operation.
“We saw a vehicle without number plate in Sapele, we asked him to stop but he refused.
“We pursued him to a village where he finally stopped. And I told him, we are taking him to our office for driving unregistered vehicle and he pleaded that we should settle the matter there but we refused.
“I took over the steering from him and started driving but when we got to Ogara road, he asked how much would he offer us to settle the matter and I said N500,000, but he pleaded and transfered N400,000 to one POS number in Abuja we gave him.
” The POS later sent the money back to us. We were driving to Abuja when the police arrest us”.
On his part, his accomplice, Abdullahi, a Correctional Service officer in Kaduna state, said Adamu invited him to Warri for the job, saying this was his first time of being involved in a robbery act.
