Why I sold colleague's missing gun to DJ -Sgt Yusuf

Date: 2022-01-15

The Osun State Police Command recently paraded Sergeant Haruna Yusuf, attached to the traffic department of the Omu-Aran Division, Kwara State, for theft of firearm. The suspect tells BOLA BAMIGBOLA the story behind his arrest

What is your name?

My name is Haruna Yusuf. I am a traffic policeman, serving at the Kwara State Command. I am from Benue State. I joined the Nigeria Police Force on June 1, 2008. I am a sergeant.

You are a policeman, what then are you being paraded amo On November 30, I was on special duty when I was arrested by the IRT (Intelligence Response Team). They took me to our station and from there, investigation into allegations against me started. The allegation has to do with the issue of a missing firearm (a pistol). I was dumped in a cell.

What is your connection with the missing firearm?

I found it (a pistol) behind a mosque in my division in Omu-Aran town. I decided not to tell my colleagues about it. I didn't know what came over me. I eventually sold the firearm. I can't explain what came over me at that time.

Who did you sell the gun to and for how much?

I sold it to a DJ (Disc Jockey). I sold the gun for N47,000. The man is into the business of firearms.

But the allegation against you is that you purposely stole the gun from one late Inspector Ehigimetor Ileso, causing him to be dismissed from the police because of his missing gun. I didn't steal the gun. I found it on the ground as I said earlier. It was later that I found out that the person that the gun was assigned to was in my division. I knew when they started looking for the gun but I was afraid to say that I found the gun.

I felt that if I confessed then, it would create a problem for me. The person I sold the gun to would also be in problem. I was scared and that was why I decided not to say anything.

You said you know the DJ as someone who deals in firearms. Does that mean that was not the first gun you sold to him?

I sold that gun and one locally-made revolver pistol. I sold that one too.

Where did you get the revolver pistol from?

I attended the burial of someone from my tribe and at the ceremony, I met someone that told us that if we were interested we could get the revolver. The man said if I was interested, I could have it.

So, the person gifted you the gun?

No, I bought it from him. I looked into the offer, and with the insecurity in the country occasioned by killer herdsmen, I thought I needed personal protection. I signified intention to have the gun. I met the person that sold it to me at the burial. So I paid for the gun. I bought it for N25,000.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Forgo Battery     Otoge     Ahmad Ali     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     United Nigeria Airline     Adama Isa     All Peoples Party     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Laduba     Suleman Abubakar     Yakubu Dogara     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Ghali Alaaya     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Hassan Saliu     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Shoprite     Sobi     Gobirawa     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Mahee Abdulkadir     Ilesha-Baruba     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Gobir     Olushola Saraki     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Ademola Kiyesola     Jimba Babatunde     Okasanmi Ajayi     Olatunji Bamgbola     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Saraki     AGM Professional Services     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Woro     Kishira     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Bamidele Adegoke     KSIRS     Isin     Onilorin     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Daud Adeshola     Pakata Patriots     Taofeeq Olateju     Kwara State Sports Commission     Kwara Politics     Umar Adelodun     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Bolakale Ayo     Wahab Agbaje     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Ope Saraki     Moshood Mustapha     Zara Umar     Saheed Akinwumi     Taofeek Sanusi     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Ado Bayero     Bukola Ajikobi     Kwasu     Elections     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Jalala     Mogaji Aare     Makama     Segun Adeniyi     Adewuyi Funmilayo     University Road     CUTI     Abdulrasheed Lafia    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Taofeeq Olateju     Abubakar Ndakene     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Henry Olaosebikan     Suleman Abubakar     Saka Abimbola Isau     Offa Poly     Jumoke Gafar     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Adijat Adebiyi     All Peoples Party     Ganiyu Taofiq     Offa Metropolitan Club     Biliaminu Aliu     Kayode Laro     Bayer AG     Akanji     RTEAN     Www.Kwarareports.com     Tinubu     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Valsolar     Bashirat Bola Bello     Bayo Onimago     Kayode Zubair     Amina El-Imam     Mogaji Aare     MATTA Girls Foundation     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Ilorin Muslim Community     Sa\'adu Salau     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     Ndama Al-hassan     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Ibrahim Mohammed     GANZY     Okasanmi Ajayi     Aliyu U. Tilde     Mamatu Abdullahi     Lawal Jimoh     Ibrahim Gambari     Michael Nzwekwe     Abubakar Lah     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     NITDA     Dele Momodu     Kwara Polytechnic     Ayegbeni     Maryam Ado Bayero     Mutawali     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Balogun Gambari     Ramat Oganija     Alapansapa     Raymond Olaitan     Kwarareports     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Ayekale     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Earlyon Technologies     Dan-Kazeem     Salihu Ajia     General Hospital, Ilorin     International Vocational Centre     Code Of Conduct     Olabimpe Olani     Dorcas Afeniforo     Ijakadi     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Air Peace     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan