The man, Lanrewaju Jaiyeola, 39, was intercepted by the operatives where he was sighted in a suspicious manner carrying a backpack and in an unkempt manner.
In what appears to be unusual to crime fighting, operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command arrested a man who appeared as mad, but in possession of 22 Automated Teller Machine credit cards, two mobile phones and power bank around Victoria Island in the state.
The man, Lanrewaju Jaiyeola, 39, was intercepted by the operatives where he was sighted in a suspicious manner carrying a backpack and in an unkempt manner.
According to one of the police officers, who arrested him, when Jaiyeola was sighted, he appeared like a mentally sick man.
But when invited for interrogation, he answered and responded normally to all enquiries.
Afterwards, he started straying from the normal course of enquiries.
The police officer added: “This raised further curiosity and we decided to check out his knapsack.
“What we found was startling: 22 credit cards, one Nokia phone with flat battery, a blackberry, a power bank, several bank tellers and lots of invoices amidst numerous pieces of papers.
“On further scrutiny, we discovered that eight of the credit cards were still valid.
“Three would expire in 2018, another three would expire in 2017, while two would expire in 2016.
“All the credit cards bore different names and bank.”
Upon Jaiyeola’s arrival at the RRS Headquarters in Alausa, he confessed that he was only disguising as a mad man to perpetuate some heinous acts around the axis.
The police officer added: “Initially, we noticed that he was mentally balanced because he was answering the questions poised to him adequately.
“But all of a sudden, he started sounding incoherent and illogical again.”
The Police authority said there is still more to what they have discovered from the self-acclaimed mad man.
While interrogating him, he threatened the investigative Police officer, saying: “I will make life unbearable for you if you don’t let me go.
“It was at this point we realized that possibly he might have some notable Nigerians whom he was working for.”
It was further learnt that the suspect was on the watch of the Police for two weeks before he was apprehended.
Some of the documents recovered from him were vouchers of N500,000 and 200,000.
Jaiyeola has been transferred to Special Anti-Robbery Squad for further investigation and psychiatric examination.