The Police Command in Ekiti state has arrested one Mr Olarewaju Oluwaseun, a driver plying Akure -Ilorin route over a false alarm alleging herdsman attack.
Sunday said that Oluwaseun raised false alarm to the Police Control Room, in Ado-Ekiti, that he was attacked and robbed of N27,000, by one Mr Quadri Isah, a herdsman, who was rearing his cattle along Awo Ekiti/ Igede Ekiti road.
The PPRO said on getting to the scene, the patrol team actually met the complaint and the suspect, but discovered the complainant had already injured the suspect with a jack knife as against his first claim that he was attacked and robbed by the suspect. “According to Quadri, the driver felt his cows 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
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