Outrageous: Read Why Police Arrested Army Colonel (PHOTO)
The Oyo state police command has apprehended and paraded a 62-year-old self-acclaimed colonel, Babatunde Idris.
The fake Colonel, Babatunde Idris.
The state commissioner of police, Leye Oyebade, while parading the fake colonel before newsmen in Ibadan, said Idris was arrested after a petition was filed against him for parading himself as a colonel in the Nigerian army.
According to Daily Post, the suspect used a fake identity card to defraud one Yinusa Mustapha to the tune of N40m.
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Oyebade said: “Following a petition received alleging the fraudulent activities of Idris, the command’s Anti-kidnapping Squad swung into action and arrested the suspect, who until his arrest had fraudulently obtained various sums of money from his victims.”
“The suspect promised his last victim, Mustapha, that he would help him to get a certificate for oil importation since 2012, but failed to complete the deal after the money was paid into his account,” The CP said.
The suspect forged various letterheads of the Nigerian army, issuing them to unsuspecting individuals and corporate organisations soliciting assistance.
“He also had multiple identities under fake names all bearing the status of a colonel,” the commissioner added.
Confessing before newsmen, the suspect said he collected the money from his victim in installments, but denied that the money was up to N40m.
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“I collected N16m from him claiming to be a colonel in the army. Mustapha wanted me to help him to collect certificate of oil lifting and because I knew people who could do it, I took the money from him, but the deal failed,” the suspect confessed.
In a similar development, four fake naval officers and a soldier have been paraded for alleged extortion of residents by police officers attached to the Ilado police post, near the Ajakoyi Beach.
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