On Friday, Jimoh Moshood the Nigerain Poice Force’s spokesman
announced the arrest of five people who allegedly specialised in impersonating
as Journalists to gain access to important occasions so as to steal from
important personalities.
A statement said that those arrested included the gang
leader, one Musa Auwalu, 43, from Kano, Kolawole Akinbode, 50, from Ogun and
Umar Abba, 53, from Adamawa.
Also arrested was Abdullahi Muhammed, 55, from Bauchi, and
Muhammad Sale, 60, from Kano. The statement said that the suspects were
arrested in Ogun, Edo, Abuja and Kano.
He listed items recovered from the suspects to include 13 cell
phones, fake Journalist identity cards purportedly issued by non-existing media
outfits, and a house in Kano built by Auwalu.
“The
Inspector-General’s Intelligence Response Team trailed 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 said. The
spokesman said that the suspects had also confessed that they specialised in
impersonating as Journalists to gain access into venues of important occasions
to steal. “Investigation is being intensified to arrest other suspects still at
large. All the suspects will be arraigned on completion of investigation,” he
said.
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