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Police detectives attached to the Lagos State Anti Robbery
Squad (SARS) have arrested one of the most deadliest criminal in the whole of
the South-Western Region.
The suspect identified as the former Chairman of the
National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW), Oyo State chapter, Mukaila
Lamidi alias Auxiliary was arrested for gun running and some violent crimes in
the south western states.
The suspect along with another notorious criminal also
identified as Tokyo were declared wanted in 2011 by the Oyo State Government
for their alleged involvement in the day light murder of a 500 level medical
Student of Sokoto University along Iwo Road.
During his days as NURTW chairman, the suspect was alleged
to have been involved in the numerous political crisis and killings in Ibadan,
Oyo State.
Parading the suspect at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja,
yesterday, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko said that his
arrest is sequel to the arrest of a notorious illegal arms dealer identified as
Abdulazeez Amao who smuggled AK 47 rifles from Mali and Bokina Faso to Nigeria
on March 10, 2014.
The Lagos police boss, said the suspect in his confessional
statement alleged that one Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi aka Auxilliary who is also the
immediate past NURTW Oyo State chairman bought one AK 47 rifles and one English
pistol from him.
Manko said based on the strength of the information, he
detailed the Officer in Charge of SARS, Superintendent of Police (SP) Abba
Kyari to investigate and go after the criminal described as one of the most
wanted criminal in the south west.
"Two detectives from SARS led by Kyari were briefed and
deployed to Oyo State with extensive GSM data obtained from Auxiliary's phone
numbers.
"After three days of diligent follow up, Mukaila Lamidi
was intercepted and arrested at Olodo Area of Ibadan on May 10, 2014 at about
10.30pm while driving in his ash colored Nissan Quest Soace bus with
registration number Ca 647 KSF and one Zastava pistol with breach No. 150533,
two loaded magazines with 15 rounds each and one packet of .9mm live ammunition
containing 50 rounds were recovered from him" he added.
Manko further stated that furring the course of
interrogation. The suspect alleged that he gave his AK 47 rifle to one
Tirimisiyu Olowoposi who also live in Ibadan.
He explained that effort is ongoing to arrest the supposed
keeper of the AK 47 rifle.
The suspect in his confessional statement alleged that he
only procured the pistol for self protection and not for robbery. He admitted
that he actually bought the pistol from one of the gun runners for N350,000 and
had not fired a shot with it since he purchased it three years ago.
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