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Quadri Yahya
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two Lagos brothers, Emanuel Nwachukwu, 28, and Sunday Nwachukwu, 24, for stealing a Toyota Camry car.
The brothers were arrested on Wednesday during a police stop-and-search along the Lagos/Ibadan expressway.
PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the brothers were arrested while on their way Imo State with the stolen car with registration number JJJ 661 GJ.
The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
The statement reads; “Police in Ogun state on the 30th of November 2022 arrested two brothers Emanuel Nwachukwu 28 years and Sunday Nwachukwu 24years for stealing a Toyota Camry car with registration number JJJ 661 GJ while on their way taking the said vehicle to Imo state.
“The two suspects were arrested by men of Federal Highway patrol, who were on stop and search duty along Lagos/Ibadan expressway.
“The vehicle was stopped by the policemen for routine check at about 11:30 pm, but while the officers were asking questions from one of them who drove the car, the two brothers who were the occupants suddenly abandoned the car and took to their heels.
“They were hotly chased and apprehended by the policemen, who there and then took them to Ewu- oliwo divisional headquarters for proper interrogation.
“On interrogation, the two brothers who live at No 2 , Onifade street Fagba Lagos confessed stolen the car from one Bello Muyideen Kolawole of Arobaba street, Idimu Lagos.
“Upon their confession, the DPO Ewu-oliwo division, CSP Toyosi Bello, quickly got in touch with the said owner, who confirmed that the two brothers were working at a car wash very close to his shop, and that he took the car to the place for wash, only for the two brothers to run away with it.”
Oyeyemi however disclosed that the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the two suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments, for onward transfer to Lagos state Command, where the crime was originally committed.
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