How Woman Employed Robber As Private Driver

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

When a woman, Mrs. Akinola Ibironke, engaged the services of one man, Ibeh Gorge Udoka, as her private driver in Lagos, she did not know she employed a robber for the job.

However, the suspect, Udoka, got exposed on 4th May, 2021, at about 1pm, when Mrs. Ibironke asked him to take the vehicle to the mechanic for repairs but he escaped with the vehicle and was heading to Imo State before he was tracked in Edo State and arrested with the vehicle.

P.M.EXPRESS reports as was disclosed by the Police Public Relations officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi.

He said that Mrs. Ibironke came to Idimu Police Division and reported that her driver, Udoka. who she handed her Toyota Corolla car with Registration No. ABC 801 FU, to deliver to her mechanic for repairs, on 4th May, 2021, was not seen and ever since then his phone number had been switched off.

The Police operatives attached to Idimu Division of the Lagos State Police Command swung into action and relayed repeated radio messages to all Police formations across the country for possible recovery of the car. 

CSP Muyiwa Adejobi said due to the Command’s continuous tracking of the driver, the Lagos Police operatives alerted the Policemen in Edo State, on 6th May, 2021 and the driver was intercepted with the car in Benin City, on his way to Imo State.

In response to the call from Edo State Command and in compliance with the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, the Police operatives from the Lagos State Police Command proceeded to Edo State Command for the recovery and apprehension of the suspect.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has applauded the efforts and synergy between the two Police Commands, Lagos and Edo, in recovering the car and apprehending the suspect. He also directed that the matter should be thoroughly investigated and the suspect be brought to book.