Police investigate community relations chairman
Policemen from the Oyo State Criminal
Investigation Department and the area command, Abeokuta, are
investigating the Ogun State Chairman of Police Community Relations
Committee, PCRC, Shuaibu Aro, for alleged fraud. Mr Aro is accused of
allegedly defrauded two people, Yekini Aliyu and Wasiu Aliyu, to the
tune of N231 million.
His house was searched early last Saturday on the
orders of an Abeokuta Magistrate’s Court, and in the process, the
detectives discovered 31 Toyota Hiace buses parked at the premises. The
suspect, who was said to have resisted arrest on two occasions,
reportedly threatened the deputy superintendent of police, who led the
search team, with dismissal for daring to come to his house for the
job. Messrs Aliyu and Aliyu, whose petition secured the court’s nod for
the search, have taken a step further by petitioning Ogbonna Onovo, the
Inspector General of Police, for further action. They asked the police
boss to carry out thorough investigation on Mr Aro, who is also the
acting chairman of Lagos State Chapter of the PCRC, as well as his
alleged fraudulent activities.
Fraudulent acts
The petitioners alleged that he had been
threatening their lives, boasting that nothing would happen to him
since he is close to most senior police officers in the country. They
stated that they were introduced to Mr Aro by one Rafiu Adesina, who
said he needed to be supplied 3,500 units of motorcycles of different
models. According them, after supplying 3,000 units of Jincheng A x 100
motorcycles, 300 units of Lincoln CG 125 motorcycles, and 200 units of
Lincoln CG (125) Alloy) motorcycles to the suspect, he refused to pay
them the money. They said rather than respond to their repeated calls,
he only threatened them with death if they refused to stop calling. He
was said to have issued several dud cheques within the space of one
month. One of them bears the number, 114371679. The police officer,
whom he threatened to influence his sack, reportedly made him to
understand that he was not above the law despite his closeness to many
of his bosses, saying “We got a search warrant to search your house and
we are here.”
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