After being imprisoned four times for different crimes, an ex-convict, Yekini Opeyemi, could land in jail again for stealing two generators.
35-year-old Opeyemi was arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed Opeyemi’s arrest on Wednesday, adding that the suspect perpetrated the crime around the Odo-Iya Alaro, Ojota area of Lagos State.
Opeyemi, who was reportedly working as a guard at Ojota New Garage, was nabbed by the officials of the Rapid Response Squad while trying to load two generator sets into a Volkswagen Golf car
Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known in a statement on Wednesday.
According to Hundeyin, the driver on sighting police officers sped off, leaving Yekini behind.
The PPRO added, “The suspect, Yekini Opeyemi, 35, was arrested around 4.00am, near Odo-Iya Alaro, Ojota in company of others now at large, trying to load one Firman and one Tigmax generators, 2.8 KVA each, into a Volkswagen Golf car. The driver on sighting the police officers sped off, leaving Yekini behind.
“Investigation revealed that Yekini, who arrived in Lagos last week, was employed as a security guard at Ojota New Garage. When accosted, Yekini, who has been imprisoned on four different occasions over separate incidents, could not give any satisfactory explanation about the generators.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, while commending CSP Yinka Egbeyemi, the Commander of Rapid Response Squad, directed the case to be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, for further investigation and prosecution.
