The Oyo State Police Command has paraded a 60-year-old real estate agent, Adeyemi Isaac, who had been posing as a serving Commissioner of Police and, on another occasion, as an Assistant Inspector General of Police.

During the parade of the suspect and 32 others alleged to be involved in various crimes such as cultism, armed robbery, impersonation, and more, at the Police Headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Adewale Osifeso, spoke on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Adebola Hamzat.

According to the PPRO, the suspect was apprehended following numerous complaints from the public, accusing him of using fake identities to unlawfully extort substantial sums of money from unsuspecting individuals.

The Monitoring Unit of the Command initiated discreet human intelligence gathering, which eventually led to his arrest at his hideout in Oyo town.

Upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to using the fake identity for over a decade. He explained that aside from extorting money from the public for alleged police-related matters, he had also exploited the fake identity to gain undue advantages from junior and senior police officers.

Osifeso revealed, “Upon his arrest, so many of his victims have identified him while recounting experiences of how they parted with huge sums of money to the suspect under the guise of actually dealing with a real Commissioner of Police or an Assistant Inspector General of Police.”

In his defense, the suspect stated that he had lied about being a police boss to assist people who had issues with the police. He expressed regret for his actions and mentioned that many of those he had helped did not show their gratitude.

He said, “I have tried helping people four times, that was what I did, and I counted it as a mistake, that I call myself police boss. I never worked as a police officer; before my arrest, one of those who used to assist me, who is a welder, approached me seeking assistance for his brother in police custody.”

In a related development, a suspected cattle rustler, Mr. Muhammadu Bello, aged 25, was also paraded for orchestrating an attack that led to the tragic death of his employer, Yay Mohammed, a cattle dealer in Soku Village near Iseyin Town, Oyo State.

The PPRO explained, “A team of operatives attached to the unit in ISEYIN town were deployed for swift intervention, and in the process, the suspect who later identified himself as Mohammadu Bello was arrested.”

“Upon interrogation, he confessed that he is a cattle rustler and subsequently led the operatives to a thick forest where he concealed twenty (20) live cows and fourteen sheep that he rustled from his employer.”

“However, upon further investigation to Soku forest where he claimed to have carried out the dastardly activity, it was discovered that the suspect had killed the owner of the cows and sheep who was identified by him as Yau Mohammed (his employer) and buried him in a shallow grave.”

“The club which he confessed to have used to attack and kill his employer was equally recovered from the scene of crime.”

Investigation is ongoing, and further developments will be communicated, Osifeso concluded.