After working with a Commissioner of Police (CP) and an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), it is expected that Mr Oliver Dike should be a role model to those looking up to him for guidance. But rather than become a great man in his community, Dike was sponsoring armed robbers to snatch exotic cars. Dike, otherwise known as Mopol in the underworld, was arrested while he was in police uniform.
He was apprehended at Sagamu section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The 35-year-old suspect was nabbed by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State, led by Superintendent of Police (SP), Abba Kyari, with a fake police identity card.
A police source said: “Police started the search for Dike in April 2015 after two armed robbery suspects – Akinropo Ogunsina and Jimoh Akeem – mentioned his name during interrogation that he was the receiver of the cars they used to snatch. “Ogunsina confessed that his gang snatched two Honda Accord 230 model cars and Sienna bus and sold to Dike. Unaware that Ogunsina had been arrested, Dike repeatedly kept calling Ogunsina’s phone, asking if he had another snatched car for sale.” According to Ogunsina, Dike bought two cars for N280,000 and was requesting for Toyota Highlander ‘Jeep,’ Toyota Corolla 2014 model and Honda Accord before his arrest.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the arrest of the suspects. Nwosu said it was in the process of receiving the Toyota Highlander that Dike was arrested. According to the PPRO, N200,000, which he wanted to use to pay for the stolen car, was recovered from him. He said: “When the police came in contact with him, he identified himself as a police corporal. He had a police identity card with him. The police team went along with him to his house in Abuja for a search. They recovered a complete police uniform.
The police also recovered one of the cars, a Honda Accord he bought from Ogunsina in his house.” The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Aderanti, has ordered detectives to ensure that members of the gang are brought to book. Dike, a father of one, said he was a motor spare parts dealer with a shop at Zuba motor park, Abuja, before he took to crime. He said: “In 2004, I went to sell motor parts to a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). He is now retired after being promoted to the rank of a Commissioner of Police.
We became friends. I told him that I would like to work for him as his driver and do some other domestic chores for him. He agreed. I left the motor parts business for my younger brother and started working for the DCP. “I started living in his house. I used to drive him to work and other places. In 2005, he was sent to War College and later became a Commissioner of Police (CP). He retired in 2012. “After he retired, all his boys, including me, were transferred to the new CP that took over from him.
The new CP was later appointed as an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) before he retired. Since then, I stopped working for him.” Dike confessed that the police identity card found on him was that of the police orderly, named Udeka. Udeka was an orderly to the first CP who retired. Dike said: “Udeka asked me to assist him to collect his identity card from Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, where we last worked.
He said that I should bring it to Abuja for him. But I have not given it to him. As for the police uniform, I evacuated it from the dry cleaner who does the dry cleaning of our master’s uniform in Yenagoa. I brought it to Abuja and kept it in my house.” The suspect said the police arrested him because he came to buy a Highlander ‘Jeep’ from Danjuma, otherwise known as Ogunsina.
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