Two weeks after being placed under watch, the Lagos State Police Command Rapid Response Squad (RRS) arrested Lanrewaju Jaiyeola, 39, claiming to be insane, in possession of 22 ATM credit cards, 2 mobile phones and power bank, on Ozumba Nbadiwe Road, Victoria Island, on Wednesday. .
According to one of the police officers who arrested him,
“When we sighted him, he appeared like a mentally sick man but we invited him for interrogation, he answered and responded normal to all our enquiries. Afterwards, he started straying from the normal course of our enquiries. .
This raised further curiosity and we decided to check out his backpack. What we found was startling; 22 ATM cards, 1 Nokia phone with flat battery, a blackberry, a power bank, several bank tellers of recent bank transactions, and lots of invoices amidst numerous pieces of papers.
On further scrutiny, we discovered that 8 of the cards were still valid and all bore different names and banks. There is still more to what we have discovered. While interrogating him, he threatened the investigative police officer, saying “I will make life unbearable for you if you don’t let me go."
It was at this point we realised that possibly he might be enjoying the patronage of some highly placed people whom we believe he might working for.”
He has now been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad where he is expected to be subjected to further investigations and psychiatric examinations
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