Why I posed as Senator Ahmed Tinubu, says19-year-old

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A  19-year-old who was arrested for impersonating  the former governor of Lagos State Senator,  Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Facebook said that he took to the crime because he could not get a job after graduation.

The suspect, Emmanuel Eto was arrested after the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kayode  Aderanti, received a complained from one Gbenga Adeyemi, that  Eto was posing as the ex-governor of the state on Facebook.  

Eto before his arrest, promised some unsuspected people, jobs with the NNPC and some other companies.

Aderanti said that he directed the officer in-charge of the State Criminal Investigative Bureau(SCIB), to hunt for the suspect.

The officer in-charge of SCIB, Mrs. Amehakpa Veronica, led a team of policemen and got the suspect. He was arrested in Warri, Delta State.

The suspect said: “When I graduated from the Delta State Polytechnic Oghara, I could not secure a successful job. I decided to use some influential names in Nigeria  to dupe the people through Facebook accounts. I knew many graduate like me were in dire need of jobs. I created a Facebook account of the former Lagos State Governor Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to dupe people. I’ve have my United Bank of Africa(UBA) account number, where they paid for application forms and processing fee of N26,850.”

He confessed to have defrauded three persons since he started the scam. He said that he was about to dup the fourth person when nemesis caught up with him.

The police said that the fourth victim, Mr. Gbenga Adeyemi  who  lodged the complaint, said his   uncle, a retired  Deputy Inspector General of Police(DIG), Alhaji Rahmam Akao, called him  that somebody had  created an account with the name Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Adeyemi said: “My uncle asked me to send a friend request to the impostor. I did and the impostor accepted. Immediately he accepted my friend request. We became friends. We communicated regularly. He sent me a message on Facebook, asking me if I was a graduate or undergraduate. I told him I was a graduate of Accounting. He asked me if I would love to work with NNPC. I said yes. He promised to introduce me to one Emmanuel, who was in charge of the human resources person at the NNPC company.”

Adeyemi said that Eto sent him one Emmanuel’s phone number. Eto asked him to call in respect of the NNPC recruitment. When he called the Emmanuel, he asked him to send him email address, so that he could send him the recruitment form. The supposed Emmanuel also sent Adeyemi an account number to pay in the sum of N26,850 for the form and processing fee.

Adeyemi said: “I played  along.  I told him I  was trying to withdraw the money from the Automated Teller Machine, that my card got stuck in the process. He was finally arrested.”

Items recovered from the suspect includes  six SIM cards of different network, 13 empty SIM card packs, six photographs of foreigners and one Ipad 3 phone.