CP Odumosu’s Officers Reject N500, 000 Bribe, Nab Robbery, Cultist Suspects

<p><em>CP Odumosu’s Officers Reject N500&comma; 000 Bribe<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that the discipline and intuitions Commissioner Hakeem Odumosu of Lagos State Police Command has inculcated into the officers and men of the Command have started yielding fruits&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a statement signed by the Command’s spokesman&comma; CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu&comma; Odumosu’s renewed determination to ensure criminals no longer have field day in Lagos has led to the arrest of criminals in the past few days&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the statement made available to the National Association of Online Security Reporters&comma; NAOSRE&comma; Lagos Anti-crime patrol team of the Area &&num;8216&semi;J&&num;8217&semi; Command&comma; Elemoro&comma; has arrested an armed robbery suspect and a suspected cultist with a locally-made double barrel gun and three cartridges&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The 23 years old armed robbery suspect&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Alabi Timothy<&sol;a> who resides at 9&comma; Baale Street&comma; Majek&comma; Ajah&comma; was arrested on September 9&comma; 2021 at General Paint&comma; Garden area&comma; Lekki during a routine stop and search by the police&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A locally-made double barrel gun and two live cartridges including an expended cartridge concealed in a bag were recovered from the suspect&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Similarly&comma; a 22 years old self-confessed cultist&comma; Badmus Toheed &lpar;male&comma; who belongs to the Aye Confraternity&rcub; was arrested with a live cartridge in the General Paint ghetto area&comma; Ajah same day&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The suspect confessed that he was initiated into the Aye Confraternity sometime in June&comma; 2021&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In related developments&comma; two suspects have been arrested for offering bribe to the police to secure the release of the two suspects and pervert the course of justice&period; While 34 years old Adariku Sunday&comma; resident of 66&comma; Henry Smith Close&comma; Abidjan GRA&comma; Ajah &comma; offered the sum of N400&comma;000 bribe in cash to secure the release of 43 years old robbery suspect&comma; Folorunso Akeem&comma; offered the sum of N100&comma; 000 cash to secure the release of the suspected cultist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Determined to ensure justice through thorough investigation&comma; the uncompromising police officers in charge of the case rejected the bribe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While commending the professionalism and uncompromising act of the police officers&comma; the Commissioner of Police admonishes other police officers to emulate the incorruptible ones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Commissioner of Police has&comma; however&comma; directed that the case should be transferred to the Command&&num;8217&semi;s Tactical Team for further investigation and prosecution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;