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The Lagos
State Police Command has arrested man who had been parading himself as younger
brother to the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, in order to
defraud people.
The suspect,
Sanni Miletwelve Mohammed was arrested at the Ketu police station area, which
apparently was his major area of operation.
Police spokesperson,
Ngozi Braide, said the fake Sanni was arrested, after the real Sanni Miletwelve
Abubalar heard about his antics and alerted policemen.
A trap was
cleverly laid for the fake Sanni and he fell like a log of wood into the snare.
Braide
added: “The fake Sanni was arrested by policemen attached to Ketu Division. He
was impersonating the younger brother to the Inspector General of Police. Incidentally
the two of them bear the same name. The suspect’s name is Sanni Miletwelve
Mohammed, while the real one is Sanni Miletwelve Abubakar. The fake one is from
Kebbi, the real one from Zafara. They’re not related at all! We learnt that he
had used this gimmick to defraud a lot of people of money.
“He would promise
them that as the IG brother, he would talk to his brother about their case or
matter in order to help them. Under this guise he had duped a lot of people. By
tomorrow, he would be charged to court for impersonation. He had been doing
this for over a year. In fact since Mohammed Abubakar became the IGP.”
The suspect
was not just angry at being placed before journalists; he yelled at them that
he was not going to speak with them. Fuming, he yelled: “We used to deal with
journalists like you all at the barracks. But because I’m now a civilian you’re
talking to me like this.”
But before his
theatrics, he claimed that he had never collected money from anybody with his
impersonation. He added that he was just doing it to gain, ‘respect.’
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