On Friday,
Jimoh Moshood the Nigerain Poice Force’s spokesman announced the arrest of five
people who allegedly specialised in impersonating as Journalists to gain
access
to important occasions so as to steal from important personalities.
A statement
said that those arrested included the gang leader, one Musa Auwalu, 43, from
Kano, Kolawole Akinbode, 50, from Ogun and Umar Abba, 53, from Adamawa.
Also
arrested was Abdullahi Muhammed, 55, from Bauchi, and Muhammad Sale, 60, from
Kano. The statement said that the suspects were arrested in Ogun, Edo, Abuja
and Kano.
He listed
items recovered from the suspects to include 13 cell phones, fake Journalist
identity cards purportedly issued by non-existing media outfits, and a house in
Kano built by Auwalu.
“The
Inspector-General’s Intelligence Response Team trailed and arrested the
suspects after complaints of stolen phones from important personalities, who
attended a wedding in Abeokuta, Ogun on July 8. The house built by Auwalu in
Kano, with proceeds of such thefts, has been identified,” he said. Moshood said
that the suspects had confessed to the crime and also admitted to the various
roles they played in the commission of such crimes over time,” he said. The
spokesman said that the suspects had also confessed that they specialised in
impersonating as Journalists to gain access into venues of important occasions
to steal. “Investigation is being intensified to arrest other suspects still at
large. All the suspects will be arraigned on completion of investigation,” he
said.
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