19th October, 2010
The Police in Owutu Division recently forced some armed robbers to abandon a black Pontiac Sports Utility Vehicle with registration number GW 442 AAA with goods worth over N3 million. It was snatched from the owner at Afolabi Balogun Street, Ikorodu, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.
P.M.NEWS gathered that the owner of the vehicle had reported the robbery at the Owutu Police Station and informed the DPO that the bandits also made away with his cell phone. The DPO of the station, Mr. Monday Okpan, a Chief Superintendent of Police immediately requested for the victim’s cell phone number.
He then put a call across to the phone and when the robbers picked the call, he told them to park the vehicle wherever they are, informing them that all police formations have been duly notified of the incident and that the particulars of the vehicle have been given out as they will be arrested within a short period.
On receiving the call, the robbers were said to have told the DPO to come to Ojokoro new town area of Ikorodu to pick up the vehicle.
Eyewitnesses at the scene told P.M.NEWS that immediately the robbers parked the jeep they snatched an unregistered Bajaj motorcycle and fled.
The DPO and his anti-robbery team were said to have taken the jeep with its contents to the station, where the complainant made a wrote a statement before the car and the goods were released to him.
—Yusuf Muhammed
