Kogi PDP House of Reps Candidate Arrested For Armed Robbery
Category: Nigerian National News
One of the suspects paraded by the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad of
Nigeria Police Force on Monday in Lagos, Mr. Ayodeji Olumudi, has been
identified as a top member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party in Kogi
State. Olumudi, who wore a red T-shirt during the parade, contested for a
seat into the House of Representatives on the platform of the PDP
during the 2011 general elections.
The Police had paraded a member of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State, Itunnu Odeyemi, and eight others on Monday, saying they were notorious for snatching exotic cars in the country. But Odeyemi, the APC member, denied being a robber, but admitted he provided his political thug, Omoniyi Ajewole, with a gun, which was recovered by the police, and led to his arrest.
The Police had paraded a member of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State, Itunnu Odeyemi, and eight others on Monday, saying they were notorious for snatching exotic cars in the country. But Odeyemi, the APC member, denied being a robber, but admitted he provided his political thug, Omoniyi Ajewole, with a gun, which was recovered by the police, and led to his arrest.
It was the arrest of Odeyemi that led others to expose the PDP armed robbery kingpin...
Punch investigation on Wednesday showed that he was indeed a PDP
aspirant. Olumudi, whose campaign poster on the platform of the PDP
during the 2011 elections was obtained, had also been arrested and
paraded for the robbery.
In his reaction, Police Public Relations Officer, ACP Frank Mba, claimed the police is not bias. He said:
“The suspect (Ajewole), in the process of interrogation, told the police
that he preferred to be called a political thug than an armed robber.
And that had changed the entire narration and we began to probe further.
You can understand why his own story was relevant to us; a gun was
recovered from him by the police. In the process of asking where he got
the gun, he said it was given to him by an APC honourable in Ekiti
State.
“The idea of anybody trying to read political colouration into it is rather unfortunate. We were concerned about the robbery, and if the suspect had not opened up that he was a political thug, perhaps that would not have come up. Ajewole said it so openly that it would have been difficult for anybody to contest the fact. But if anyone has any additional information from anywhere, that is alright.
“The other person, even if he was a politician, the interrogation probably never took us to that direction. In investigation, it is not possible for you to know everything about a suspect. The gun is a material evidence recovered from the suspect, and it is relevant to establishing the robbery case. It was in the process of finding out the owner of the gun, that the suspect confessed he got it from an honourable in Efon-Alaaye, Ekiti State. So, you can see the way it was built up. So, if anyone belongs to any other political party, that has nothing to do with the case, that is not my business.”
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In his reaction, Police Public Relations Officer, ACP Frank Mba, claimed the police is not bias. He said:
“The suspect (Ajewole), in the process of interrogation, told the police
that he preferred to be called a political thug than an armed robber.
And that had changed the entire narration and we began to probe further.
You can understand why his own story was relevant to us; a gun was
recovered from him by the police. In the process of asking where he got
the gun, he said it was given to him by an APC honourable in Ekiti
State.“The idea of anybody trying to read political colouration into it is rather unfortunate. We were concerned about the robbery, and if the suspect had not opened up that he was a political thug, perhaps that would not have come up. Ajewole said it so openly that it would have been difficult for anybody to contest the fact. But if anyone has any additional information from anywhere, that is alright.
“The other person, even if he was a politician, the interrogation probably never took us to that direction. In investigation, it is not possible for you to know everything about a suspect. The gun is a material evidence recovered from the suspect, and it is relevant to establishing the robbery case. It was in the process of finding out the owner of the gun, that the suspect confessed he got it from an honourable in Efon-Alaaye, Ekiti State. So, you can see the way it was built up. So, if anyone belongs to any other political party, that has nothing to do with the case, that is not my business.”
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