BY OMOS OYINBODE, ASABA
A banker with the Mainstreet Bank, Mr. Chidi Ajah, has commended the leadership of the Dragon Squad, a section of the Nigeria Police in Delta State for its effort towards the recovery of his stolen Jeep by hoodlums a few weeks agone.
Speaking with our correspondent who cornered him in Asaba, Mr. Ajah narrated how the hoodlums broke into his compound and made away with his Lexus Jeep while he was on his way to the bank at the early hours of February 26, 2015.
Mr. Ajah narrated the strategies employed by the squad all in a bid to ensure the car was recovered from the hoodlums, stating that what aided the team to track the car was the car tracker installed in the Jeep.
He said with the certain digits he forwarded to the leadership of the squad, whose office is situated along the Asaba-Benin Expressway, the squad was able to monitor the car to the point where it was kept by the hoodlums in a particular community along the NYSC orientation camp in Issele Uku, Delta State.
He explained that the sophisticated equipment of the Dragon team leader was able to monitor the movement of the hoodlums, just as he said the equipment was also indicating the location of the car as it was directing the team to where the car was kept by the hoodlums.
According to him, “as we were moving, the squad leader was telling us that we are getting close to where the car was and as soon as we got there, the machine showed us this is the car. Unfortunately for the guys when they discovered that the car had been tracked down, they left it and ran away with the key.
“The police quickly swung into action, combed the area, arrested some people, about two guys but unfortunately they were youth corps members, some of the community members came to testify that they were innocent and they were released. We later sent for the spare key and we drove the car back home”.
Mr. Ajah, who said he spent over N3m to purchase the car, advised all car users to install car trackers in their cars as its usefulness cannot be over-emphasized, noting that N45,000 car tracker is not comparable to losing a car running into millions to hoodlums.
Though Nigerians have continuously blamed the police for various misbehaviours, Ajah said the squad was exceptional, as the team carried out the search with human face with all readiness to recover the car undermining the fact that it was involving daredevil robbers.
He also advised robbers and intending ones to stay away from Delta State as the Dragon is ever ready to crush every attempt to rob residence of the state.
