Driver flees with employer’s car four days after resumption

A newly hired driver, Olufemi Jogbodo, has allegedly fled with his boss, Gelly Saloon vehicle with number plate AGL586GW, just four days after resuming work, having been assigned to him by his company’s manager on November 18, 2025 after his former driver fell ill.

Penpushing reports that the victim, Olakanmi Ogundele, a Lagos based developer raised the alarm adding that the suspect initially identified himself as Adeleye, who accompanied him on a trip to the Ijebu Ode area of Ogun State on the same day and returned with him to Lagos on November 20, 2025

The developer said the suspect also took him to the office the following day before he later absconded with the vehicle while he was in a meeting at the company’s Ikoyi office in Lagos State.

“My driver was sick and I told my company to get me another driver because I was going to travel to Ijebu Ode. So, they got a driver on October 18, and we went to Ijebu Ode together and came back on October 20’, he recalled.

‘Then, he took me to my office in Ikoyi. I was in a meeting in the office when he told the security that I sent him on an errand. The security could not come in to confirm with me because the meeting was still ongoing. That was how he went with the car and never came back’,

Penpushing further reports that Ogundele explained that the matter was immediately reported to the Ikoyi Police Division’s tactical team, who began tracking the suspect, lamenting as at the time of filing this report, no progress had been made since the search for his whereabouts.

The developer in a document detailing the suspect’s information, said he was discovered to be 44 years old and also a resident of Dele Ogunbowale Street in the Ikate area of the state, and runs 11 different bank accounts.

Penpushing also reports that Ogundele, however, pointed out that some of the suspect’s relatives were also tracked and arrested.

‘We have arrested his sister’s wife and one of his cousins, but we have to release them because they have stayed more than the permissible period in detention. During our findings, we discovered that she had an aged mother who is about 75 years old and stays around Agbado Ijaiye, but we could not arrest her because of her age’, he stated.

Penpushing reports that Ogundele explained that the manager who sourced the driver was also arrested and interrogated.

“We arrested the manager and interrogated him. He said that because I was in a hurry to travel, he could not get the information he had provided before they gave it to me.  The manager did not do his due diligence by confirming the identity and address of the driver. Everything he gave was fake. When he was employed, the name he gave us was Adeleye, whereas his real name is Olufemi.”

Penpushing further reports that Ogundele disclosed that plans were underway to place a bounty on the suspect to aid his arrest and the recovery of the vehicle.

Meanwhile, as at the time of filing this report, the Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer Adebisi Abimbola, was yet to make any official statement on the development.

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