Police arrest suspects diverting bags of rice
DETECTIVES at the Special Enquiry Bureau, Force Criminal Investigations Department, Alagbon, Lagos, have arrested three members of a notorious syndicate that specialises in stealing and diverting goods from unsuspecting dealers of various goods and disposing them to buyers all over the country. The three suspects, Shoyombo Olutoyin, Taiwo Adeyemo and John Nma, were arrested, after they allegedly diverted bags of rice worth N9.5 million from a seller in Edo State, in the pretext that they were taking it to their church to sow seed. They were alleged to have diverted a total of 280 bags of rice from one Isah Abdullahi and ended up donating 50 bags of the rice to a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, in Benin City, as a form of sowing seed, and made away with the remaining 230 bags, which they were about selling in a market at Mushin, Lagos, before they were arrested. Parading the suspects in Lagos, the Commissioner of Police in charge of SEB, Alagbon, G...