In a commando-style that brings to mind the popular Sylvester Stallone movie, Rambo a police informant, Razak Olatunji Olaniyi stormed the premises of the Ladoke Akintola University in Ogbomoso yesterday and arrested a truckload of students whom he labelled as 'yahoo boys' (internet fraudsters).
The informant who claims to be working for the Inspector General of Police was at a time arrested in Ibadan when he came on the trail of some young men who turned things odd for him and accused him of stealing their money and other valuables.
'Alhaji' as he is popularly known is an enforcer and the dread of many young people who are involved in internet scam.
The man was said to have started as a police informant before he got the backing of some superior police officers to be effecting the arrest of fraudsters and this he has been doing to perfection as he had on numerous occasions been alleged of demanding percentages from internet fraudsters and arresting them if they can't come up with his request.
Yesterday's operation was said to have angered a lot of people who claimed most of the students arrested were innocent and were in school to write their projects.
Alhaji was said to have stormed the city with armed policemen and went from house to house where he arrested 38 people.
City Info investigation reveals that those arrested were remanded at the Iyaganku Police Station, Ibadan before they would be taken to Lagos.
City Info in a bid to know if the self claimed detective has the right to be arresting fraudsters spoke with an official of the EFCC who hinted that the informant is under investigation and that the commission is waiting for the perfect time to work on the many petitions that have been written against him.
The police informant was said to have at different occasions been questioned as to who gives him the authority to arrest and lead armed policemen and he has a ready made response 'IG ni!, e pe ke beere lowo e' (its the IG, call him and ask him'.
Alhaji's modus operandi is to bug phones, hack emails and contact whoever he was going to arrest with various accusations before he made his demand which the hapless victim would either fall or run into hiding.
The informant was alleged to have converted this practice into serious business and he makes money after he must have sorted out all the police officers that are also involved in the racket.
Yesterday's attack in Ogbomoso is said to have been his fifth this year as he frequents the school based on his understanding that the institution has the highest number of students who are involved in internet scam.
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