Collecting Bribe Is In My Blood * Says Dismissed Policeman. Pics

CALL him Sergeant Mathew Julius or Inspector S. Edo, you will be still be speaking about one and same person. The man in question, whose real names are Timothy Adigun and who was dismissed from the Nigeria Police in 1991 for performing illegal duties, had thereafter assumed different identities to extort members of the public until he was arrested by operatives of State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Oyo, on August 12, 2011 at his hideout on Ibadan-Iseyin Road.



In addition to extortion, the Ogbomoso-born Adigun reportedly formed a three-man gang with two others, Tunji and Jimoh, and were robbing people of their motorcycles, while pretending to have arrested them. Also, Adigun made sure that he promoted himself anytime he heard that his course mates in the police force had been promoted, hence his rank as an Inspector though he was dismissed as a Constable!


According to information gathered, the criminal activities of 45-year-old Adigun came out in the open when he was reported by his landlord at Atiba Police Station that he had disappeared with the man's motorcycle. The landlord had informed the police that his tenant who was a policeman attached to the Division had left with his motorcycle for two weeks and had not returned it.


With a similar case previously reported at the same Division, detectives began a manhunt for the suspect. After alerting Oyo SARS about the suspect, operatives from the unit, led by the officer-in-charge, DSP Olusola Aremu, reportedly stormed Adigun's abode at Iya Kola village along Ibadan-Iseyin Road where he was apprehended.


Narrating how his journey into the world of crime began, Adigun, who said he was married with four kids told Sunday Tribune that "After I passed out of Ilorin Grammar School in 1987, I joined the Police Force in 1990. While in secondary school, I was very notorious and was much of a thug. After I left police college in Ilorin, I was working with Kwara State Police Command.


In 1991, I was posted to NNPC depot but left the place for Oke Oyi, NNPC area to mount an illegal checkpoint with three others. We were discovered there by the Officer-in-Charge of Criminal Investigation Department and were arrested. We were taken to the Command headquarters, tried and dismissed.


"After my dismissal, I went back to Ogbomoso and started farming at Iresaadu. Because it was in me to extort, I started collecting money from smugglers who passed through the farm road by putting on my police uniform and flashing my fake police identity card. The smugglers used to 'settle' me with N5,000, N10,000. I was able to use the uniform because I only submitted one to the Police Force

while I kept one back.


"When I noticed that people were beginning to suspect me there, I left the place for Iseyin and started working with Customs officials that were on the road by giving them information about the smugglers whom I already knew. I didn't let the Customs officials know that I had been dismissed from the police. After the smugglers must have settled the Customs officials, the officials would then give me something from whatever they were given.


"I had already spent about five years there when information got to Iseyin police division about me. I was arrested and charged to court. The court sentenced me to two years imprionment in 2008 and I served the term in Agodi Prisons. By the time I came out in 2010, my wife had left with my four children and I have not seen them since, neither do I know their whereabouts.


"On my return from the prison, I left Iseyin for Iya Kola Village along Ibadan-Iseyin road and rented a room there. I started seeing the same smugglers I knew before and after I made them believe that I was previously posted out of that place and had just been posted back, they started 'settling' me with N5,000, N10,000.


"While in prison, I met with Tunji and Jimoh who were Oyo indigenes. They described their house for me in Oyo and after I left the prison, I went to look for them and they introduced me to snatching/stealing motorcycles. They said I could be leading them as an officer while I would be pretending that I was arresting the okada riders. After the arrest, I would tell the rider to meet me at the station but the motorcycle would be taken away to be sold.


"We were able to do that once and I was given N10,000. My gang members told me move closer to Oyo so that we could work smoothly. One of them helped me to get a room in Ilora and I told the landlord that I am a policeman, showing him the picture I took with my uniform. I told him I was working with former governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala and had to leave Ibadan when he left government, lying that I had just been posted to Oyo Area Command.


"The second time I attempted stealing okada was when I asked my landlord to lend me his motorcycle, telling him that I wanted to travel home. The action was based on the advice of my partners-in-crime. I went to Iya Kola Village and started using the motorcycle personally.


"When he did not see me, my landlord went to Atiba police station to report that the policeman working with the Division had gone away with his bike. Detectives came to arrest me but Tunji and Jimoh escaped".


On how he got the identity card he was using, the suspect said he found the ID card in Ilorin Barracks, removed the passport photo attached to it and put his own. Also speaking on how he was getting his new ranks, Adigun said he used to approach his coursemates, who didn't know he had been dismissed, to get the ranks which he would sew on his uniform after removing the old rank. He added that none of his family members knew that he had been dismissed from the police force as he used to pretend as if he was still working.


"I was doing all these because it was in my blood", Adigun said.


Commenting on the case when Sunday Tribune sought confirmation on the story, the police image maker in Oyo State, ASP Femi Okanlawon, said the suspect would be charged to court after completion of investigations.

Look at him?

Him papa's compound blood abi.

They really need to psychoanalyze the police force.

ha ha

Ileke-IdI:

Look at him?

Him papa's compound blood abi.

They really need to psychoanalyze the police force.

Lol at the bolded. Ileke, you no go kill me o o!

Anyone with a pair of brain cells to rub together ought to know that Nigerian police is corrupt and need a total Overhaul.

Yoruba man and egunje.
anything dubious are in their Vein, Silly people.
No Yorubaman can survive without Fraudulent lifestyle, dishonest tribe

WilWily:

Yoruba man and egunje.
anything dubious are in their Vein, Silly people.
No Yorubaman can survive without Fraudulent lifestyle, dishonest tribe

F+u+c+k+i+n+g TRIBALIST!

na so dem be.e.v.e.n d i.g

These are the kind of thugs and hooligans that have infiltrated the Police force. With people like them around, the result is predictable: inefficiency and ineffectiveness.

They need to be purged from the Force, the same way miserable and brainless tribalists need to be purged from Nairaland, before the breakdown of law and order break wipes out law-abiding Nigerians.

Mental case.

na wa oooo

wow thats intresting

Its easy to castigate him because he has been caught. But the truth is that the same thing is going on in the police force everyday. Corruption is rife, and the Nigerian police force has been noted as the most corrupt institution in the entire country.

Yet, we never hear culprits being dealt with or any of the commissioners or officers being taken to court

That simply says, the system of corruption must come from the highest quarters of the force! There are no reform measures being implemented by the current Inspector General, to specifically tackle corruption in the force. Could it be that he is also a beneficiary of the system?

Not to mention the rudeness and outright wickedness of some of the officers!

lol so left for the government to clear Nigeria of this genetic pool abi dem too carry the same kain blood

nothing I won't hear again chai

With the eye am seeing this man, please on no account should this man be set free. Because since the crime is in his blood, more of these havoc will he commit once he regains freedom. He might decide to form a deadly gang that will waste human lives. He should be taken to church for deliverance and sanctification.

Both this man and the looter governors should be baild or set free without a life jail term beign given unto them

This is the same for all Police Officers in Nigeria. There is no exemption.

Nigeria Police Officers in road blocks in Nigeria collect bribe. It does not matter where you go - East, South, West or North.

Nigeria Police Force form majority of armed robbers in Nigeria. Any Police road block in Nigeria is a Bribe Collection Point (BCP).

If you are a vehicle driver in Nigeria you will understand my talk.

This is beyond ridiculous,though i am not surprise hearing or reading this cus there are still so many of them out there pretending to be police by occupation. Things should be done fast to eliminate this rifraffs on our soil.

Dis man shud b sentencd 2 50 yrs of community service.

This is an example of the people that spoil the image of the Nigerian police force. They all will be caught one by one

Both this man and the looter governors should be baild or set free without a life jail term beign given unto them

A gibberish sort of statement,

I can only imagine the beating this man recieved to voice out his biography
Chei naija police

As if no be naija police,abegi.

Business as usual,the entire polic force are just the same,they have named and shamed him but who are they fooling?and next we would hear people are being kidnaped in this country and this wholly the police hand works as they are the ones carrying these shameful and devilish act.

This man is a fool. What is in his blood. There is nothing like that. It is a common factor among the NPF. smh

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udezue:

Mental case.

you funny die

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That country is desperately hard so make una no too blame these police.
They are hardly paid and institutionally in a no-win situation due to the way they are percieved in that society.

Our Police are (arguably) the worst paid police force in the world ( minus the perpetually hungry east african anything)

Not condoning their nefarious activities (they actually killed a distant relative and took all his dollars) but they are sooo so
hungry beyond anyones imagination despite their tedious work.
Life's not fair for the average naija policeman.

I dont like 'em very much but hey, fair is fair.

haha look at his stomach

can we drain this hediot blood out of him, since the crime is stored in his system.
jokes apart, this shows the fundamental problem that still exist within the police force.

which ever way we look at it, we are all similar to the dismissed cop.
plain truth.

they ar accursed citizens