A ‘mad man’, Olanrewaju Jaiyeola, has been arrested with 22 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards, two mobile phones and a power bank in...
A ‘mad man’, Olanrewaju Jaiyeola, has been arrested with 22 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards, two mobile phones and a power bank in Lagos.
The Punch reports that Jaiyeola, 39, was intercepted
by the RRS operatives with a backpack on Ozumba Mbadiwe Road,Vitoria
Island,Lagos. The police said they were not convinced that
Jaiyeola was actually mad, adding that initially, he was lucid before he
started talking illogically.
One of the RRS men, who declined identification, said,
“When we sighted him, he appeared like a mentally-ill man, but we
invited him for interrogation. He responded normally to all our
enquiries.
“A few minutes into the interrogation, he started straying from the normal course of our enquiries and was not making sense at all. This raised further curiosity and we decided to search his backpack.
“Inside
the backpack, we found 22 ATM cards, one Nokia phone, a BlackBerry, a power bank, several bank tellers of recent
bank transactions, and lots of invoices hidden in pieces of papers.”
It was learnt that eight of the credit cards were
still valid, and they had different names and banks. The officers took
him to their base in Alausa, Ikeja.
A policeman at the base told the Punch that
the suspect made “statements suggestive of somebody disguising as a mad
man to perpetrate crime”.
He said, “Initially, we noticed that he was mentally
balanced because he was answering the questions posed to him adequately.
But all of a sudden, he started sounding incoherent and illogical
again.
“While interrogating him, he threatened the Investigating Police
Officer, saying, ‘I will make life unbearable for you if you don’t let
me go’.
“It was at this point we realised that possibly he might be enjoying the
patronage of some highly-placed people whom we believe he was working
for.”
The police said the suspect was on their watch-list for about two weeks before he was arrested.
