Police find 1,700 voter cards inside bush.

The Lagos State Police Command
has recovered no fewer than 1,700
Voter Cards believed to have been
hidden by unknown persons inside
a bush in the Seme, Badagry area
of Lagos.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the VCs,
which were concealed in a swampy
forest in the area, were recovered
by policemen attached to the Area
K Command, Morogbo.
Our correspondent gathered that
the officers, who were on patrol,
stumbled on the hidden election
materials on Sunday, November
16.
According to the police, the
recovered VCs, which had been
handed over to the Independent
National Electoral Commission,
Lagos State office, are suspected
to have been stolen from an INEC
worker in the Ajeromi-Ifelodun
Local Government Area.
The Lagos State Police Public
Relations, DSP Kenneth Nwosu,
while confirming the recovery of
the VCs, added that INEC had,
however, found the recovered
materials to be the old Voter
Cards.
He said, “The materials were
hidden in a swampy area in Seme.
The police did not arrest any
suspect because the area is not a
neighbourhood. It is an abandoned
location.
“Also, the INEC have duly been
informed. We have shown them the
recovered materials, although INEC
eventually found them to be the
old Voter Cards. However, the case
is under investigation at the Area
K Command.”
When PUNCH Metro contacted the
Lagos State INEC Resident
Electoral Commissioner, Dr. A.L
Ogunmola, on Sunday for
comment, he requested that he
should be called back as he was
having a rest.
Meanwhile, the police also
recovered a stolen vehicle in the
same area. The vehicle, a Ford
salon car, marked FST 598 XL, was
recovered by policemen attached
to the Federal Highway Patrol,
Agbara, on the Lagos-Badagry
Expressway.
Our correspondent learnt that the
stolen vehicle was driven by a
suspect, Mr. Saheed Oyedare, who
with two other occupants of the
car, was arrested by the police.
It was gathered that the suspects,
during interrogation, confessed
that they snatched the vehicle from
a residence on the Lagos Island on
Wednesday, November 5.
Also, in the Alagbado area, the
police from the Ojokoro division
arrested a suspected armed robber
with some ammunition.
The suspect, Akeem Shonde, was
driving a Volkswagen Golf, marked
LSD 220 CP, when he was stopped
by a police patrol team.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the
suspect was found with a Russian-
made single-barrelled rifle and 11
rounds of ammunition.
Nwosu confirmed the arrests,
adding that the cases were under
investigation at the Department of
Criminal Investigation, Yaba.