How Armed Robber Stole Police Officer’s Phone While Being Transported To Command

MICHAEL AKINOLA 

A 23-year old armed robbery suspect, Godwin Emmanuel, demonstrated his skill as an armed robber by stealing the phone belonging to a Police officer while inside the van transporting him to the Police Command for armed robbery and sexual assault in Osun State. 

 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the suspect,  Emmanuel, was arrested along with two other suspects—28-year old Olajide Kareem and 33-year old Mike Emmanuel—for allegedly robbing residents and sexually assaulting a 65-year-old woman on the Ilesa-Osu Expressway in Osun State.

 

The woman was taking her husband to the hospital when they attacked and sexually assaulted her in the process.
This was disclosed by the Police Public Relations Officer of the Osun State Police Command, Yemisi Opalola, while parading the suspects at the State Command headquarters at Osogbo town.

 

The Spokesperson Yemisi Opalola, while parading the suspects explained that “the three suspects rob motorists and passengers of their belongings. In one of the incidents, a bus driver was shot in his leg but was subsequently rushed to Seventh-day Adventist Hospital in Ile-Ife where he received treatment”.

“Consequently, Olajide was arrested in the bush and he confessed that he was a member of a five-man gang of armed robbers who came from the Ikorodu area in Lagos state to perpetrate their acts in Osun State. The other two suspects were arrested.”

Speaking with newsmen, Godwin said: “I was arrested for armed robbery. When I was been transported to the Police Command in Osogbo, inside the Police patrol van that I was conveyed, I stole a phone. I don’t know that it is a Police officer’s phone”.

“I told the Police not to be angry with me. I don’t know when I did that. I took the phone into the Police cell without them knowing. I removed the SIM card, I want to use the phone to call my people because they don’t know I have been arrested for armed robbery.”

“I have been here for about two months. They later came to search me in the cell where I was and discovered the phone on me. Please tell them to forgive me. I won’t do it again.”

 

The Police stated that the suspects will be charged before the Court for their alleged crimes under the Criminal Laws of the State but that will be after the conclusion of investigations by the Police.