Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 43-year-old man, identified as Friday Ezi, for allegedly stealing seven cars from the Redemption Camp on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The police have also nabbed a 27-year-old motor spare parts dealer, Onyekachi Atama, who was alleged to have bought the stolen cars and dismantled them.

The Ogun State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said these in a statement on Thursday, March 26th, 2020.

Oyeyemi said Ezi, who was residing at No. 5 Adesuah Iyamo Street, Benin City, Edo State, took the police operatives to Onitsha, Anambra State, where Atama was arrested.

The PPRO stated,

The duo were arrested following a report by one Titilayo Otitodogbon, whose Toyota Camry car with number plate LND 636, was stolen on February 1, 2020, by one of the suspects.

Upon her report, the DPO, Redemption Camp, CSP Chris Amanyi, detailed his detectives to swing into action and bring the perpetrators to justice.

The detectives embarked on full-scale forensic and technical investigation, which yielded a positive result when one Friday Ezi, who actually stole the car from the Redemption Camp, was traced to Edo State, where he was promptly arrested on March 10, 2020.

His arrest and eventual confessional statement led the operatives to Onitsha in Anambra State, where one Onyekachi Atama, who is his receiver and an accomplice, was also arrested on March 15, 2020.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects had stolen up to seven different cars from the Redemption Camp, but they confessed to have stolen only two cars on different occasions.

Onyekachi Atama, who is a spare parts dealer at the Motor Parts Market in Onitsha, confessed that once the vehicles were brought to him by Friday Ezi, he used to balkanise them and sell such vehicles in parts.

The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, commended the operatives who investigated the crime, for a job well done.

Ebrimson directed that the suspects be transferred to the anti-car theft section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and subsequent prosecution.

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