A 43-year-old man, Friday Ezi, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly stealing seven cars at the Redemption Camp on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State.
The police also nabbed a 27-year-old motor spare parts dealer, one Onyekachi Atama, for allegedly buying those cars, dismantling and selling them.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Thursday, said Ezi who lives at No.5 Adesuah Iyamo Benin-City in Edo state took operatives to Onitsha, Anambra where Atama was arrested.
The PPRO said,
“The duo were arrested following a report by one Titilayo Otitodogbon whose Toyota Camry car with registration number LND 636 was stolen on February 1, 2020 by one of the suspects.
“Upon her report, the DPO Redeemed Camp, CSP Chris Amanyi, detailed his detectives to swing into action and bring the perpetrators to book.
“The detectives embarked on full scale forensic and technical investigation which yielded positive result when one Friday Ezi who actually stole the car from redeemed Camp was traced to Edo State where he was promptly arrested on the 10th of March 2020.
“His arrest and eventual confessional statement led the operatives to Onitsha in Anambra State where one Onyekachi Atama who is his receiver and an accomplice was also arrested on the 15thof March 2020.”
The PPRO added,
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects have stolen up to seven different cars at the Camp but they confessed to have stolen only two cars at different occasion.
“Onyekachi Atama who is a spare parts dealer at motor parts market in Onitsha confessed that once the vehicles were brought to him by Friday Ezi, he used to balkanized it and sell such vehicles in parts.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, commended the investigative team for a job well done.
Ebrimson has directed that the suspects be transferred to anti-car theft section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for proper investigation and prosecution.
