of the agency.
Chairman of
the Lagos State Task Force, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed that the fake army
officer was nabbed by the enforcement team of the agency during the demolition
of shanties occupied by miscreants and hoodlums around White Sand School,
Lekki, Lagos.
Egbeyemi
disclosed further that the suspect obstructed the enforcement team and beat-up
one para-military officer attached to the agency.
He said the
suspect who claimed to be a Staff Sergeant in the Nigeria Army wore an Army cap
on a mufti dress, saying that after diligent investigations, it was discovered
he was a fake Nigerian Army officer who had been terrorising innocent members
of the public around the area.
He enjoined
members of the public to stop impersonating security personnel as everyone had
equal right before the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Egbeyemi,
however, confirmed that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai
Owoseni had directed that the suspect be immediately charge to court.
The suspect,
Usman Yaya, 27, from Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State confessed that
he stole the Nigeria Army cap from his brother in Abuja.
Yaya confessed
further that since he came to Lagos in February, 2017 and had nothing to do, he
decided to put on the Army cap to extort money from people, particularly
commercial buses plying Victoria Island and Lekki.
He claimed
that it was his brother (a Staff Sergeant with the Nigeria Army) whom he lived
with at Abacha Barracks in Abuja, who owned the cap.
Yaya pleaded
with the government to temper justice with mercy as he was ready to stop the
illegal dealings and return the Army cap to his brother in Abuja.
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