Fake Policeman Caught With Marijuana

A fake Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ugochukwu Adegoke, has arrested with over 1ookg of marijuana by Kaduna State Police Command.

The suspect was paraded by the police Wednesday, Adegoke, 36, said he was riding commercial motorcycle as means of livelihood until commercial motorcyclists were restricted to plying a few roads in Lagos in 2012.

“I left Lagos to Ondo in search of another job but couldn’t get. So, I was forced to pick the police uniform of my late brother to impersonate a police officer,” he said.

Adegoke, who claimed to be an indigene of Delta and Ondo states and a father of three children, said he wears the police uniform which belonged to his late brother, Ayodele Adegoke, an ASP in the Nigerian Police Force, to operate his illicit marijuana business, before he was nabbed by the police while on his way to deliver to some clients in Zaria.

While narrating his story that it was proceeds from the business of transporting marijuanan Hemp that he used to buy his Toyota Carina car, he disclosed that he has been in the business for over 8 months and has earned good income.

On how lucrative the business is, he said: “I make an average of N100,000 from any trip to the north and between N50,000 and N80,000 within the west.”

According to him, the trip from Ondo state to Zaria was to fetch N150,000 but luck ran out on him after his car developed a fault.

From what the Kaduna State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Aminu Lawan, told reporters he was trying to fix the car when some policemen on patrol who saw him with police uniform stopped to help.

However, being very close to him, the policemen discovered he was wearing the right police officer’s uniform, but with the wrong cap.

It was at that point they demanded for his identity card, which he couldn’t produce. He was arrested on the spot when it was discovered that he was a fake cop.

Adegoke promised to disengage from the business if released.