Tuesday 20 May 2014

EXCLUSIVE: Police arrest madman with arm in Lagos




A mad man was weekend arrested with a pistol in Gowon estate area of Ipaja, Lagos.
The suspect, is currently being interrogated by operatives at the Anti-Robbery section of the State Criminal Investigation Department ,SCID, Yaba, Lagos,

Eye witnesses said the mad man had been loitering the area for two months. However, a curious passer-by was said to have suspected the insane man when he saw him wrapping an object with a rag. The mad man was said to have thereafter, started looking sideways , apparently to ascertain whether he was being watched, before he dumped the content wrapped with the rag inside a container in the dump site.

The passer-by was said to have alerted others who immediately rushed to the dump site ,only to discover that the object was a double barrel pistol and four cartridges, con sequent upon which he(mad man) was apprehended and handed over to policemen at Gowon estate.
News of the arrest was said to have sent cold shivers down the spine of residents of the area , as they were told that the man intended planting a bomb there.
Police sources at the station told vanguard that during interrogation, the man's speech was incoherent.
Sources said: “We tried to find out where he got the weapons from but he gave meaningless response. He was later transferred t o the SCID, where investigation is still ongoing.
“Part of the investigation will include taking him to the psychiatric hospital to ascertain his mental stability, before further investigation”


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