Five journalists in police net for impersonation
The Police on Friday has announced the arrest of five persons who specialised in impersonating Journalists to gain access to important occasions to steal from important personalities.
Police confirmed in a statement signed by Mr Jimoh Moshood, the Police Force’s spokesman, said that those arrested include the leader, one Musa Auwalu, 43, from Kano, Kolawole Akinbode, 50, from Ogun and Umar Abba, 53, from Adamawa.
The police force also arrests Abdullahi Muhammed, 55, from Bauchi, and Muhammad Sale, 60, from Kano. The police force in a statement said that the suspects were arrested in Ogun, Edo, Abuja and Kano.
Moshood listed various items recovered from the suspects these include 13 cell phones, fake Journalist identity cards purportedly issued by non-existing media outfits, and a house in Kano built by Auwalu the group leader.
“The Inspector-General’s Intelligence Response Team trailed the leader 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 stated.
The spokesperson from the force stated that the suspects had also confessed that they specialised in impersonating as Journalists to have access into venues of important occasions inview to steal from such event. “ police Investigation is being intensified to arrest other suspects at large. All the arrested suspects will be arraigned on completion of
“ police Investigation is being intensified to arrest other suspects at large. All the arrested suspects will be arraigned on completion of proper investigation,” he said. NAN
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