Lagos car wash operator arrested for stealing patron’s car

By Emmanuel Awosika

A Lagos-based car wash operator, Idris Ayotunde, has been arrested for stealing a car belonging to one of his customers.

Ayotunde is said to have started the car wash business recently around Shasha, Akowonjo in Lagos State.

It was gathered that Ayotunde had bolted with a car brought for vacuuming by one Mrs Shofidiya Tosin, who later reported the theft at the Shasha Police Station.

But his luck ran out after men of the Ogun State Police Command apprehended him while on the way to Ibadan to dispose of the vehicle.

The The suspect was arrested at Alakija village via Olodo around 8.17 am by a safer highway patrol team which was on stop and search along the Abeokuta-Ibadan Expressway.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest in a statement released on Sunday.

He said: “The suspect was arrested at Alakija village via Olodo around 8.17 am by a safer highway patrol team which was on stop and search along the Abeokuta-Ibadan Expressway.

“The team stopped the car and demanded its documents, which the suspect was unable to produce, consequent upon which he was taken to Odeda divisional headquarters where the DPO, Ajayi Williams, personally interrogated the suspect and found out that he actually stole the car.”

He disclosed that the owner of the car had been contacted and added that the Police Commissioner, Edward Ajogun, had ordered the transfer of the case to Lagos.