REVEALED – How Fake Police officer allegedly steals Phone inside Police Station
A fake police officer has reportedly stolen the mobile phone of an artisan, Kehinde Adesina, at the the Idimu Police Station in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.
According to The PUNCH, the 35-year-old artisan was arrested on Tuesday, June 6 by policemen attached to the station for violating the traffic rule in the state.
After the arrest, the man was reportedly taken to the station where the officers demanded N20,000 from him to release his vehicle.
The PUNCH reported that the man told the officers that he had no means to raise such an amount and the policemen instructed him to leave their office.
But while he was still at the station, the suspect approached him, introduced himself as a policeman and offered to assist him in securing the release of his vehicle.
Adesina said, “When we got to the police station, the policemen asked me to pay N20,000 for my offence and later reduced it to N10,000 but I told them I don’t that amount and they asked me to leave.
“So, a man wearing a mufti approached and offered to help me talk to the policemen. He went into their office to discuss with them, returned and demanded N3000 for the policemen and my phone to make a call.
“When I gave him the phone, he went back into the office to meet the policemen and later came out to inform me that one of the policemen, Supol Peter, needed a recharge card. Supol Peter also came out and said I should buy Airtel and not an MTN recharge card.”
Adeshina said he quickly went to purchase the recharge card but when he returned and handed it over to Supol Peter, the suspect was nowhere to be found.
“When I asked the policeman (Supol Peter) for the man’s whereabouts, he said he thought he was my brother,” adding that the policeman started abusing him for giving his phone to a stranger.
Adesina noted that the policemen quickly gave him the key to his car, but denied him access to make an official complaint about his stolen phone.
