Ogun police arrest fake police officer with 10 bags of Indian hemp

 
Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a dismissed police officer, George Oliseh, for disguising himself as a Superintendent of Police and being in possession of 10 bags of weed suspected to be Indian hemp. The state Police Commissioner, Abdulmajid Ali while parading 37 suspects at the command’s headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta for various offences such as robbery, cultism, murder and Impersonation, said the arrested suspected fake Police officer donned a police uniform and identity card. The fake officer, according to the Police Commissioner, was arrested on Sunday at Sagamu, Ogun State while conveying consignment of the illicit weed from Owo town in Ondo State in his Toyota Camry car with number plates RSH 101 RE. Ali said Oliseh was in the company of an accomplice, Isaac Ishicheli, who claimed to be his brother-in-law.
The 64-year-old Oliseh said it was poverty and frustration that forced him into the illicit business, because he had to take care of 23 children and five wives. The Indian Hemp Farm FILE: Indian Hemp Farm He explained that shortly after he was dismissed from the force, he suffered partial stroke, affecting his left hand and leg, but he became a transporter, plying Idanre and Akure. “It was Inspector Umukoro, an Urhobo man from Delta, who introduced the Indian hemp business to me, and I embraced it. I was also a former corporal in the Police Force, I joined in 2002, but I was dismissed in 2009. “I was dismissed because I used the police van to convey Indian hemp, while I was with Edo Command. “It was frustration and poverty that forced me into the business, because I have to take care of 23 children and five wives, though two had left. I regret ever taking to this illicit trade.” Others who were paraded include a 49-year-old suspected fraudster, Adenike Longe, who allegedly defrauded three companies of goods worth N100m, issuing them dud cheques. The Police equally paraded an alleged 40-year-old serial killer simply identified as Lucky alongside five members of his gang.