Police Corporal dismissed for stealing motorcycle

dismissed corporal, Goroye Folagade

The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Umar Manko has dismissed a Police Corporal, Goroye Folagade, for stealing a motorcycle.

This was contained in a statement signed by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Ngozi Braide in Lagos.

“Police Force No. 444123 Cpl. Goroye Folagbade, attached to Ikorodu Division, has been tried in an orderly room for an offence of discreditable conduct for stealing a motorcycle.

“The offence is contrary to paragraph (E) of the first schedule of Police Act and Regulation 370, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990.

“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, promptly reviewed the proceedings and upheld the findings of guilt and thereby approved subject’s dismissal from the force with effect from Jan. 16, 2013,” the statement said.

The command, however, re-assured members of the public of its zero tolerance for corruption and other vices from any member of the command.

The Operation Officer of Ikorodu Police Division, Ebuwa Vincent, had seized the motorcycle from a motorcyclist, Saheed a few days after Christmas because he violated traffic law but could not produce the motorcycle afterwards, claiming that it had been taken to Alausa whereas the motorcycle had been stolen and sold.

After several failed attempts to recover the seized motorcycle, Saheed eventually found his motorcycle with another commercial motorcyclist at Anibaba area of Ikorodu on Thursday, 10 January, 2013 and he raised an alarm, saying he was the rightful owner of the motorcycle.

Ismail was interrogated before he eventually confessed that it was one of the station guards, Goroye Folagbade, who sold the motorcycle to him for N55,000.

Goroye later confessed to have committed the said criminal act when he was summoned by the Divisional Crime Officer, DCO of Igbogbo Divisional Headquarters after which he was arrested and detained at the same police station.