Abducted 8-yr-old girl: Police extend search

The police in Lagos State have extended their search to divisional police stations and area commands for the runaway police officer, Augustine Gbuchenge, who abducted and brutalised an eight-year-old girl, Amarachi Abakwam, in Ketu area of the state.

There are also strong insinuations that the man might be a fake policeman and that he might have been using the police uniform to deceive people.

Contrary to the belief of the neighbours of the runaway policeman that he was serving at Mobile 22 Unit, preliminary investigations had revealed that he was not attached to any mobile unit.

The police in the state, on Monday, sent signals to all area commands and divisional police stations in the state to check their nominal roll, so as to check if the runaway police officer was serving in the state

The image maker in charge of the state police command, Ngozi Braide, while speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on the incident, stated that the suspect was, as of 6.30 p.m. on Monday, not yet arrested.

She also stated that preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect was not serving at any of the mobile police force units in Lagos State.

Culled: http://www.tribune.com.ng