• The suspects Photo: Mudiaga Affe
Mudiaga Affe, Calabar
The Cross River State Police Command on
Thursday arrested two students of the Department of Public
Administration in the University of Calabar for defrauding applicants
through fake army recruitment.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Hafiz Inuwa, said the suspects were arrested on October 22, 2007, by
operatives of the command.
Inuwa said the suspects had been impersonating military officers on their Facebook pages which they used in defrauding their clients.
He said, “On October 21, 2017, we got a
tip-off through our public complaints unit that one Mr. Reuben
Bartholomew, had been duped by Daniel Onuta, 22, and Emmanuel Mba, 20.
“Upon receiving this information, our
men swung into action and the two suspects were arrested. During
interrogation, they both confessed to have defrauded Reuben Bartholomew
of the sum of N400,000.
“One of the suspects, Onuta, claimed to
be a colonel, while Mba impersonated a major. The suspects will soon be
charged to court.
“The percentage of youth involvement in
crime is alarming. Just yesterday (Wednesday), we paraded 72 robbery
suspects arrested within the state in the last three months; majority of
them were youths.”
The commissioner said the command was
determined to surmount the security challenges and other forms of
illegalities across the state.
The CP further said the suspects would soon be charged to court as soon as investigation was completed.
However, there was a mild drama when the two suspects claimed that they were secondary school pupils while being interviewed by Punch
They later admitted that they were 100-level students of the Department of Public Administration, UNICAL.
Onuta said he got N60,000 from the fraudulent transaction.
He said, “I also applied to be enlisted
into the army, but someone introduced us to this transaction. I got
N60,000 because they transferred the money into my account. I did not
know that it will turn out this way. This is unfortunate.”
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