‘Land grabber’ arrested with SIM card of slain MTN worker

A middle-aged man,  Abiodun Fagbore, who claims to be a ‘land grabber’ (Omo Onile) in Lagos has been arrested by police for being in possession of the SIM card of a man killed by robbers.

Parading the suspect last Friday, Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni said: “This is a case of murder.  On November 20, 2015, one Mr Wale Olawunmi of 17 Adebisi Nagana Street, Ikotun, Lagos reported through a petition that on October 21, his brother named David Olatunji Olawunmi, a staff of MTN Communication who left his house in Goshen Estate Redeemed Camp Mowe, around 5:30am to join their staff bus at Mowe Tipper Garage, was robbed and stabbed to death by unknown hoodlums.”

His body, he said, was recovered at Tipper garage without his phones.

Owoseni added: “Based on the analysis conducted on the activation of the victim’s phones, one of the phone numbers – 07035921551 – was found to have been used on October 22, 2015.

“It was further revealed that the said phone number was registered by one Biodun Fagbore.  He was consequently arrested and on interrogation, he admitted being the owner of the said SIM card and claimed to have bought the said phone but could not produce the source.