OYO State police command, on Tuesday, paraded a security guard named Pius Edward, who robbed a bishop in an unnamed church in Ibadan of the sum of N13 million and five suspects working on an Indian hemp farm in Ibadan, confiscating weeds worth N6.7 million in the process.
Addressing journalists at the conference room at the police headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Indabawa, said the state command would continue to make the state inhabitable to criminals.
According to him, Edward, who was a security guard at a bishop’s court in Bodija area, Ibadan, broke into the office of the bishop and made away with about N13 million. The CP noted that after a painstaking investigation, team of investigating police officers discovered that the principal suspect, in connivance with an immigration officer attached to Immigration office, Ogun Sate command, was hiding in a hotel in Odeda village, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The immigration officer in question, who was aware of Edward’s source of money, was assisting him and his family members to procure travelling documents to Dubai.
However, Edward was unlucky, as he was arrested at Idi-Iroko border town in Ogun State. At that point, the suspect had on him N560,000, $2,000 and admitted to having torn a FirstBank cheque of the church issued in the sum of N700,000 for fear of being arrested.
The items recovered from the suspect, according to the CP, included one unregistered black Honda saloon car and one unregistered blue Mitsubishi gallant saloon car, which he said he had bought from the money.
Also, five people who were working on a suspected Indian hemp farm were nabbed by the police while 458 bags of weeds worth N6.7 million were recovered by the police within the village, including ones already loaded in three buses and a Volvo car.
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