Driver arrested for ‘lying’ against herdsman
The Police Command in Ekiti State has arrested one Olarewaju Oluwaseun, for alleging a herdsman attack.
Sunday said the driver lied to the Police Control Room, in Ado-Ekiti, that he was attacked and robbed of N27,000, by one Quadri Isah, a herdsman rearing his cattle along Awo Ekiti/ Igede Ekiti road.There, the patrol team actually met the complaint and Isah but discovered the former had ealier injured the suspect with a jack knife as against his claim.
Isah said the driver felt his battle were blocking the road and therefore, angrily alighted from his vehicle, picked a jack knife from his vehicle and stabbed him severally. “The complainant, thereafter confessed that he lied against the herdsman and that the earlier information he gave to the police was false,” it added.
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