EFCC ARRAIGNS SERIAL IMPOSTOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on Wednesday October 30, 2013 arraign one Kunle Adeshola before a Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja  for impersonation, forgery and obtaining money under false pretence.

The suspect is alleged to have been parading himself as an Assistant Commissioner of Police attached to the EFCC and defrauding unsuspecting heads of government agencies. He is alleged to have penetrated the office of the Director-General of the Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC, claiming he was assigned to discreetly investigate staff of the corporation.

However, the suspect was arrested by operatives of the Commission after he purportedly sought approval for secondment to the NTDC and to travel with NTDC staff on a foreign trip.

He had at other times claimed to possess a doctorate degree in Criminology from the University of Jos.

Upon his arrest, a search carried out in his apartment in Lugbe, Abuja, yielded documents that include a fake EFCC identity card, fake Police ID Card, forged NYSC and University of Jos certificates.

The suspect would be arraigned on a 7-count charge.

The EFCC recently alerted the general public of the activities of fraudsters that have been circulating fake EFCC invitation letters to some heads of agencies of government purporting that the letters emanated from the Commission in respect of petitions against them.

The Commission wishes to advise members of the public to discountenance any invitation letter purportedly emanating from the EFCC that contains a personal telephone number. No authentic EFCC invitation letters bears the telephone number of an operative.

Also, members of the public should ignore any letter purportedly from the Commission that requires them to call anybody to discuss time and date of an appointment. An authentic EFCC letter of invitation would unambiguously state the date and time an invitee is expected to report and the full name of the officer he is to report to.

In addition, interrogations are only conducted in EFCC offices. Addresses of all EFCC offices are available on the Commission’s website (www.efccnigeria.org).

Members of the public may take the extra steps of verifying the authenticity of any invitation letters purportedly from the EFCC by contacting the Director, Internal Affairs Department at Block C, EFCC headquarters, 5 Fomela Street, off Adetokunbo Ademola crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja, or call any of these numbers: 097831798, 097831799, 08036076316, 08191534236 and 09-4604628 or send an email to: dia@efccnigeria.org. They could as well send a message through the EFCC facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Official-EFCC.