‘Mad man’ arrested with 22 ATM cards, phones in Lagos

A self-claimed ‘mad man’, Lanrewaju Jaiyeola, was arrested with 22 Automated Teller Machine cards, two mobile phones and a power bank. He was nabbed by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command on the Victoria Island area of Lagos State. 

The police said they were not convinced that Jaiyeola was actually mad, adding that initially, he was lucid before he started talking illogically. It was gathered that Jaiyeola, 39, was intercepted by the RRS operatives with a backpack on Ozumba Mbadiwe Road.

One of the RRS men, who declined identification, said,

 “When we sighted him, he appeared like a mentally-ill man, but we invited him for interrogation. He responded normally to all our enquiries.
“A few minutes into the interrogation, he started straying from the normal course of our enquiries and was not making sense at all. This raised further curiosity and we decided to search his backpack.
“Inside the backpack, we found 22 ATM cards, one Nokia phone, a BlackBerry, a power bank, several bank tellers of recent bank transactions, and lots of invoices hidden in pieces of papers.”

It was learnt that eight of the credit cards were still valid, and they had different names and banks. The officers took him to their base in Alausa, Ikeja.