After working with a Commissioner of
Police (CP) and an Assistant Inspector
General of Police (AIG), it is expected
that Mr Oliver Dike should be a role
model to those looking up to him for
guidance. But rather than become a
great man in his community, Dike was
sponsoring armed robbers to snatch
exotic cars. Dike, otherwise known as
Mopol in the underworld, was arrested
while he was in police uniform.
He was apprehended at Sagamu section
of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The 35-
year-old suspect was nabbed by the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),
Ikeja, Lagos State, led by Superintendent
of Police (SP), Abba Kyari, with a fake
police identity card. A police source said:
“Police started the search for Dike in
April 2015 after two armed robbery
suspects – Akinropo Ogunsina and Jimoh
Akeem – mentioned his name during
interrogation that he was the receiver of
the cars they used to snatch. “Ogunsina
confessed that his gang snatched two
Honda Accord 230 model cars and
Sienna bus and sold to Dike. Unaware
that Ogunsina had been arrested, Dike
repeatedly kept calling Ogunsina’s
phone, asking if he had another snatched
car for sale.” According to Ogunsina,
Dike bought two cars for N280,000 and
was requesting for Toyota Highlander
‘Jeep,’ Toyota Corolla 2014 model and
Honda Accord before his arrest.
The state Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the
arrest of the suspects. Nwosu said it was
in the process of receiving the Toyota
Highlander that Dike was arrested.
According to the PPRO, N200,000, which
he wanted to use to pay for the stolen
car, was recovered from him. He said:
“When the police came in contact with
him, he identified himself as a police
corporal. He had a police identity card
with him. The police team went along
with him to his house in Abuja for a
search. They recovered a complete police
uniform.
The police also recovered one of the cars,
a Honda Accord he bought from
Ogunsina in his house.” The state
Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode
Aderanti, has ordered detectives to
ensure that members of the gang are
brought to book. Dike, a father of one,
said he was a motor spare parts dealer
with a shop at Zuba motor park, Abuja,
before he took to crime. He said: “In
2004, I went to sell motor parts to a
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). He
is now retired after being promoted to
the rank of a Commissioner of Police.
We became friends. I told him that I
would like to work for him as his driver
and do some other domestic chores for
him. He agreed. I left the motor parts
business for my younger brother and
started working for the DCP. “I started
living in his house. I used to drive him to
work and other places. In 2005, he was
sent to War College and later became a
Commissioner of Police (CP). He retired
in 2012. “After he retired, all his boys,
including me, were transferred to the
new CP that took over from him.
The new CP was later appointed as an
Assistant Inspector General of Police
(AIG) before he retired. Since then, I
stopped working for him.” Dike
confessed that the police identity card
found on him was that of the police
orderly, named Udeka. Udeka was an
orderly to the first CP who retired. Dike
said: “Udeka asked me to assist him to
collect his identity card from Yenagoa,
capital of Bayelsa State, where we last
worked.
He said that I should bring it to Abuja for
him. But I have not given it to him. As
for the police uniform, I evacuated it
from the dry cleaner who does the dry
cleaning of our master’s uniform in
Yenagoa. I brought it to Abuja and kept it
in my house.” The suspect said the police
arrested him because he came to buy a
Highlander ‘Jeep’ from Danjuma,
otherwise known as Ogunsina.
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