Delivery Driver Absconds Equipment: A delivery driver who allegedly absconded with medical equipment valued at N34 million has been apprehended by police detectives from the Zone 2 Police Command Headquarters in Onikan, Lagos.
Revealing the development to journalists, the Zonal Police Public Relations Officer (ZPPRO), CSP Ayuba T. Umma, stated in a press release that the suspect was hired by an Osun-based medical doctor to transport the equipment from Ikotun and Ikeja in Lagos to Idumota, for further delivery to a client in Zamfara State.
According to the statement, the medical practitioner, Ajefolakemi John of Iloromu Quarters, Ile-Ife, assigned the task to the suspect on April 15, 2025. However, it was later discovered that the suspect had disappeared with the equipment, and all attempts to contact him were unsuccessful.
Still on Delivery Driver Absconds Equipment
To make matters worse, Ajefolakemi noted that all of the suspect’s known phone numbers had been switched off, leading him to submit a petition to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police for Zone 2, AIG Adegoke Fayoade. In response, the Zonal Anti-Crime Unit was instructed to launch a covert investigation to locate and apprehend the suspect.
The investigative team promptly began work, tracing the suspect to Adoka Community in Benue State and eventually arresting him at his hideout in Ugbokpo Community.
All the equipment was recovered, including a Mindray SV 300 laptop ventilator (1 unit), Mindray 3-part hematology analyzer (1 unit), Mindray patient monitors (2 units), patient monitor trolleys (2 units), Zoncare 12-lead ECG (1 unit), and a Mindray DP 10 laptop ultrasound (1 unit).
The only unrecovered item was a Mindray DP 10 laptop ultrasound, valued at N3,400,000, which the suspect admitted to selling to one Chukwudi Eyinaya in Mushin for N1 million.
In his confession to the police, the suspect claimed that the rest of the equipment was intact and had been stored with his sister in the Ihiala area of Anambra State.
The PPRO added that the suspect will be charged to court upon the conclusion of the ongoing investigation.
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