Bello, who is attached to the Itire Police Division, was detained along with an accomplice, Idowu Badmus on Tuesday.
Their arrest came after a victim, identified only as Aramide, reported that he was robbed of his motorcycle at Iyana School bus stop on the Lagos State University-Iyana Iba Road.
Officers from the Igando Police Division who made the arrest, recovered three stolen motorcycles from the sergeant and his accomplice, while the buyer and a motor mechanic had also been detained.
Aramide was said to have identified his motorcycle among the three recovered by the police.
The victim narrated to the Punch how the sergeant, who wore a black police T-shirt, and his accomplice, Badmus, who was in mufti, had accosted him at the Iyana School bus stop on Sunday.
The duo, who also came on a motorcycle, were said to have slapped Aramide, and ordered him to come down from the motorcycle after Badmus displayed a police ID card and a pair of handcuffs.
They allegedly told their victim they were from the Iba Police Division, adding that they were taking his motorcycle into the police station.
Aramide said, “Around 1pm, I took a lady from Iyana Iba to Adolf, near Iyana School bus stop. While I was waiting to take her back in front of a pharmacy, two men on a motorcycle stopped in front of my motorcycle.
“One of them showed me a police ID card and the other slapped me. They asked me to stand up from the motorcycle. They said they were from the Iba division and they were taking it to the station.
“Immediately I got down from the motorcycle, one of them jumped it and zoomed off, while the other followed on the motorcycle they brought. They did not go to the Iba station. I was shouting, ‘thief thief’ but no one could help.
“I took a motorcycle to Obadore junction, but I could not find them. I went to my house in Akesan and in the evening, I learnt that a suspected motorcycle snatcher was arrested and had been taken to the Igando division. I went there and saw that it was Badmus.
A landlord on Makinde Close, who did not want his name in print, said it was residents who arrested Badmus, and handed him over to the police at Igando.
He said, “I was in front of my house around 4pm. I saw a man riding a motorcycle into our close being followed by another man on a motorcycle who was shouting, ‘help help, thief, thief.’ That got everyone’s attention.
“When we stopped both motorcycles, the man, who gave his name as Idowu (Badmus) showed us an ID card, saying he was a policeman from the Ikotun division. He said he seized the motorcycle from the man at Iyana Iba.
“So, I asked him how his jurisdiction got to Iyana Iba from Ikotun. We took all of them in a car to the Ikotun division.
“It was at Ikotun that he was discovered to be a fake policeman and the police arrested him and transferred him to Igando.
“When they interviewed him, he confessed to have snatched about three motorcycles and identified a police sergeant in Itire as his accomplice. That was how the sergeant was arrested.
“We heard that there are some fake policemen working with real policemen to perpetuate crimes on the LASU-Iyana Iba Road. The police should investigate them,” the landlord added.
The Lagos State Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, DPPRO, DSP Damasus Ozoani, confirmed Badmus’ arrest, adding that the suspect mentioned a policeman as his accomplice.
“The complaint was made against Badmus and three motorcycles were recovered from him.
“The suspect named a policeman as his accomplice.
“We have begun investigation into the case,” the DPPRO added.
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