Ogun State Police Command has arrested two men for allegedly impersonating police officers in Ibogun Town in Ifo Local Government Area of the state.
According to a statement by the spokesman of the command, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects, Tajudeen Bankole and Fawoyi Rotimi were arrested following information from an hotelier that two police officers demanded an unspecified amount of money from them after a threat of arrest.
He said the duo had confessed to the allegation with one of them being a dismissed policeman while the other was an informant.
Recovered from them are two forged police warrant cards.
Also, operatives of SWAT in Ogun State have apprehended one Oduola Abiola for impersonating a Nigeria Security and Civil Defense officer.
He stated that the thirty-one year-old was arrested when a stolen phone was traced to him at Ibara area of Abeokuta.
The statement said he was arrested with a complete NSCDC uniform which he claimed to have stolen from a civil defense officer.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Edward Ajogun, has ordered the transfer of the suspects to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation.
Wale Oluokun
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