Nigeria Police Inspector Arrested for Stealing Plantain in Lagos

 

A Police Inspector in Lagos state has been arrested for stealing bunches of plantain in the Ebute Metta area in Lagos state.

He was nabbed while trying to hide the plantain in two trucks on Tuesday. A senior police officer thereafter ordered that he be remanded in prison and be arraigned later on.

“The inspector is attached to the Railway Police Command. On Tuesday around 12pm, he went to the commissioner’s lodge and harvested plantains without any authority. As if that was not bad enough, he brought two trucks into the command to take the plantain away. He wanted to cover up the plantains with some iron sheets so that he could take them through the gate without being detected," someone familiar with the matter said.

“He was on this when some workers at the Railway Command called the attention of the authorities to it and he was arrested.”

His superior officer however pleaded for his release, saying such incident would dent the public image of the police if prosecuted.