A dismissed Police Sergeant has been arrested by the operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island, western Nigeria, for allegedly posing as a police officer to defraud the Nigeria Police of about N40 million in eight years.
Police
authorities alleged that the suspect, Victor Afamefuna Banor, from
southern Nigeria, after his dismissal from the Nigeria Police, forged
personnel emolument records, including his last pay certificates and
submitted them with fake names, ranks and Force Numbers to the Nigeria
Police pay offices in Lagos, Edo, Cross River, Kaduna, Kogi, Ogun and
Akwa Ibom state Police Commands and allegedly collected the sum of N40
million from the purse of the Nigeria Police under false pretence.
The suspect, Victor Afamefuna Banor
The
police further alleged that the suspect perpetrated the fraud by
transferring himself to all the aforementioned Police Commands with fake
documents and promoted himself to the ranks of ASP, DSP and SP anytime
he received information about promotions in the Nigeria police.
Police investigation revealed that luck ran out on the suspect when he was arrested while wearing a fake SP rank.
The Deputy Commisioner of Police in charge of FSARS Lagos, DCP Chris
Ezike received an intelligence report about the activities of the
suspect andy directed a police team led by DSP Solomon Igwe to fish out
the suspect anywhere he may be found.
Banor was arrested in Onitsha, Anambra State, southeast Nigeria, and brought to Lagos for interrogaton.
After investigation, the suspect was arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos on a 30-count charge of obtaining about N40 million from the Nigeria Police under false pretence.
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