Man Attempts To Swindle Police Boss, Arrested

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A 52-year old suspected fraudster, Tayo Ogunmola, has been arrested by police detectives while attempting to defraud the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama.

P.M.EXPRESS reports as was disclosed by the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi. He said that the suspect was presently cooling his heels in the detention cell of Ogun State Police Command for making an attempt to swindle the Police boss, CP Makama, under false pretense.
Oyeyemi explained that the arrest of the suspect followed a phone call he made to the CP pretending to be an old herbalist who mistakenly sent a recharge card pin to the telephone number of the CP therefore pleading for the pin to be sent back to him. The CP who had been familiar with the antics of the fraudsters decided to play along with him while he sent men of the Intelligence Response Team to technically track and apprehend the suspect.
He said that at a stage, the suspect, who was not aware that he is being trailed, was presenting himself to the CP as a Deputy Inspector General of Police who is ready to assist the CP only if he can part with certain amount of money not knowing that the person he has been discussing with is a serving Commissioner of Police.

However, he ran out of luck when he was traced to his hideout at Araromi Phase 2 in Ilogbo area of Ota where he was promptly arrested.
On interrogation, he confessed being a fraudster who had defrauded many unsuspecting members of the public of their money running into millions of Naira, out of which he built the house he is living in presently.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama, has ordered the monitoring team to properly investigate the suspect with the view of arresting his other accomplices and arraign them before a Court of competent jurisdiction.