Crack down in Lagos as police raid training camp, arrest 108 naval impersonators
- 108 suspects allegedly impersonating men and officers of the Nigerian Navy have been nabbed by the police in Lagos
- The suspects were arrested during a raid on their training camp in the Ogudu-Sanfield area of the state on Wednesday
- According to the police, the suspects were operating under the name of the Nigerian Merchant Navy, also called the Coastal Defence
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No fewer than 108 suspects allegedly impersonating men and officers of the Nigerian Navy have been arrested by the Lagos state police command.
The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said the suspects were arrested during a raid on their training camp in the Ogudu-Sanfield area of the state on Wednesday.
Source: UGC
While parading the suspects at the command headquarters in Ikeja, Odumosu said the commanding officer of the training camp, Sunday Dakare, was also arrested, adding that the suspects were operating under the name of the Nigerian Merchant Navy, also called the Coastal Defence.
Odumosu said, “On November 10, 2021, around 11am, the Lagos State Police Command raided the illegal training camp of the Merchant Navy located in the Ogudu-Sandfield area, Lagos State, and arrested the Commanding Officer, Sunday Dakare, 47, together with 107 suspects currently on training.
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“I wish to inform you that there has been credible actionable intelligence on the illegal activities of the Merchant Navy following which the command embarked on intensive surveillance of the camp and its activities therein. Consequent upon intensive monitoring of the camp and its operators, the command carried out a well-coordinated overt operation at the training camp in the early hours of today.
“During the raid, which was coordinated by the operations department of the command, the following items were recovered: several military accoutrements, including camouflage badges of ranks, a flag, a signboard and ID cards. Other items recovered include recruitment letters, promotion letters, a portrait of the commanding officer, two motorcycles, one plasma TV, three cutlasses, criminal charms and other items.”
The CP, who urged members of the public to be wary of people posing as military personnel to carry out illegal operations in the state, noted that the Federal Government had outlawed the Nigerian Merchant Navy.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, November 9, urged the inspector general of police, Usman Baba, to set up a special investigation on the whereabouts of a Nigerian journalist, Tordue Salem, who was last seen on October 13.
The Senate said that the IGP should as a matter of urgency launch a special investigation to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the whereabouts of Salem.
A resolution was tabled after a point of order raised by Senator Orker-Jev Emmanuel Yisa, the lawmaker representing Benue northwest senatorial district.
Legit.ng previously reported that Nigerian journalists on Monday, October 25, took to the streets of Abuja to protest the disappearance of Salem
The journalists under a parent body of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Federal Capital Territory chapter marched from the union's secretariat to the Force Headquarters at Area 11.
Finding succour for family, friends and colleagues of Salem
Meeting with Frank Mba, the force public relations officer the journalists called for the intervention of the IGP in the disappearance of Salem.
The chairman of the FCT chapter of the NUJ, Emmanuel Obeche, who spoke on behalf of the journalists also demanded an immediate transfer of the case from the FCT command to IGP's special unit.
Source: Legit.ng
