A 38-year-old fake inspector, Akinyemi Thomas, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun state police command for impersonation.
He was arrested on the February 17, while policemen attached to Sagamu divisional headquarters were on routine patrol of their area with the DPO CSP Godwin Idehai. They sighted the suspect in full police camouflage uniform under the bridge along Lagos Ibadan expressway.
Confirming the arrest, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said the suspect, Akinyemi Thomas’s conduct raised the suspicion of the policemen who then stopped to question him. Immediately the patrol vehicle stopped, the suspect took to his heels. He was then chased and apprehended.
Upon interrogation, he confessed being a dismissed policeman but using the uniform to extort unsuspecting members of the public. A police warrant card and uniform were recovered from him.
