The operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 25-year-old naval officer, Ibrahim Adamu, and a 26-year-old officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Abdullahi Abdulwahab, for alleged armed robbery and car snatching.
Parading the suspects on Tuesday, May 9, the Edo State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, disclosed that the officers were arrested in the Ekpoma area of the state by the command’s officers while acting on credible information.
Nwabuzor said the suspects attacked the driver of an unregistered C300 Mercedes Benz car in Sapele, Delta State, snatched the car from him, and also forced him to transfer N400,000 to their account.
He said the suspects were taking the car to Abuja to sell it when they were arrested by the police officers in Ekpoma.
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The police spokesperson, who said the vehicle and military uniform were also recovered from the suspects, revealed that they have made statements and claimed to be officers of the Nigerian Navy and Nigerian Correctional Service, respectively.
Speaking with journalists, one of the suspects, Adamu, who was recruited into the Nigeria Navy in 2019, said he was arrested for stealing a Mercedes Benz C300 car in Delta state.
He said: “I was recruited into the Navy in 2019. I worked in Lokoja, Kogi State before I was posted to Warri, Delta State.
“It was when I went on a course in Sapele that I made the plan to steal a vehicle.
“After my course, Abdulwahab came to visit me, assuring him that we would make money and he agreed to join me. We took a tricycle from Warri to Sapele for the operation.
“We saw a vehicle without a number plate in Sapele; we asked him to stop but he refused. We pursued him to a village where he finally stopped.
“I told him, we are taking him to our office for driving an 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 Oghara Road, he offered us money to settle the matter and I told him to pay N500,000 but he paid N400,000 to a PoS account which I gave him and was later transferred to me.
“We were driving to Abuja to sell the car when the police arrested us,” the naval officer disclosed.
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