Wonders shall never end. It sucks when the hunter is being hunted. This is the case of two policemen who were caught in the act of robbery.
An Akure High Court, weekend, ordered the continued detention of two police constables in Olokuta Prison for armed robbery.
The policemen, Henry Ubogwu and the other, simply identified as Bamidele, serving with the Ondo State Police Command, alongside an accomplice, Ige Ibukun, allegedly robbed one Mr. Victor Ojo of his Toyota Camry salon car with registration number, MA 862 AAA around Plaza, Oke Ijebu area of the state capital in September, 2010.
The suspects were later apprehended when the alleged snatched car was involved in an accident around B’ Division police Station in Akure.
At the resumed hearing of the trial, the prosecution counsel, led by Mr. Dehinde Olafimihan, called an officer of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, and the Investigating Police Officer, IPO, who investigated the matter at the Ijapo Police Station where the matter was initially reported before transferring it to SARS as witnesses.
The IPO, Adewunmi Olatunde, in his evidence, claimed to have known two of the accused persons, Ubogwu and Bamidele as police officers before the incident.
According to him, the duo served as junior policemen in the same Police Division where he served.