BY DAYO JOHNSON

AKURE —Detectives in Ondo State have arrested the driver of a university lecturer, one Taye Ajayi, for allegedly organising the theft of his boss car worth about N3 million.

The lecturer, Dr Okunola James, is of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Ondo State.

Taye was arrested in Lagos State after the car, with number plate, MUS 328 BZ, was stolen from where it was parked in Akure.

Report had it that the driver, who drove the owner and family members to the church on Sunday, also ran some errands same day and on Monday.

He was alleged to have parked the car and submitted the keys to the don on Monday only to return around 9 pm and took the car to an unknown destination.

The university don was said to have noticed that the car was missing the following day which prompted him to report at the Okuta Elerinla police division.

Police detectives reportedly tracked down the vehicle at Ajebamidele after Ore town with the suspect behind the wheels.

It was subsequently demobilised but the driver, being familiar with the security gadgets of the car, manipulated it and drove on.

Police detectives, on getting to where the car was demobilised, did not find it there.

They became suspicious that the thief must be an insider and the vehicle was tracked down again but before the suspect could move it, he was arrested at Bode Thomas Street in Lagos.

The driver was reportedly caught with the car while trying to restart it.