Police Arrest Truck Driver, Three Others For Allegedly Stealing Goods Worth N60m

By Babatunde Solanke

A truck driver Samson Olusegun, and three other suspects, Jimoh Iyanu, Opeyemi Akinloye and Hazimi Abdulakeem, are currently cooling-off in Lagos Police detention for allegedly stealing goods worth N60m.

The quartets were paraded alongside others suspects who committed various offences at the police command headquarters in Ikeja on Friday, 4 August, 2023.

Speaking at the parade of the suspects, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, explained that Olusegun was assigned to convey a 40ft container with number ACLU-9651677, loaded with 1,040 bags of blended ‘powder milk’ worth about N60m from Apapa Tin Can Island to the Friesland Campina, Wamco Nigeria Plc on 7B Acme Road, Ogba Industrial Estate, Ikeja, Lagos.

“However, Samson Olusegun conspired with his cohorts and diverted the truck with the goods to Coker Bus Stop along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, where Opeyemi Akinloye, Jimoh Iyanu and others trans-loaded the goods to another truck, and thereafter sold 491 bags of powder milk worth N36.7m to one Hazimi Abdulakeem, 47,” the PPRO said.

Similarly, Hundeyin paraded three suspects, Igboro Rasheed, 39, Rasak Adeleke, 30, and Moses Victor, 23, in connection with the killing of an Inspector, Sunday Apochi, attached to the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos State.

“The fact of the case is that on July 23, 2023, around 8.30pm, the suspects being members of the Aiye Confraternity, led by one Sulaimon Abbas during a fight, shot the deceased with a locally-made rifle and thereafter used a battle axe on him before he died,” he said.

Hundeyin, who noted that Owohunwa launched Operation Flush to tackle crime resurfacing in some parts of the state, said on August 2, 2023 at around 9.30pm, a joint operation was carried out by operatives of the Isheri Division and Area H Command to raid drug joints at Isheri North.

He said five suspects were arrested and several wraps of substances suspected to be Indian hemp and other illicit drugs such as codeine, Colorado, and loud were recovered, adding that the suspects would be charged to court for onward prosecution.

Other suspects including Zarhanu Garba, 39; Maikusa Mohammed, 42; George Ebukeebuna, 56; Abass Oluwatosin, Babatunde Daniel, Fagboun Idris, Fabian Ndubuisi, 32; Samson Isaac, 37; Wisdom Iwoha, 27; Ebuka Duru, 26; Gbenga Olamide, 38; Olufemi Olanrewaju, 40; Christain Oramuru, 31; Philip Samson, 40; and Adeniyi Adeleke, 29, among others.