Police detectives attached to Zone 2, Police, Onikan, Lagos have detained a middle-aged man who claimed to be a police officer after he stormed the station and sought for the bail of two suspected international fraudsters in police custody.
The suspected fraudsters were earlier arrested at the Lekki area of the state after they were found to be with forged certificates of a university in Ghana.
They were also alleged to be deeply involved in internet scam in many foreign countries and have succeeded in acquiring stupendous wealth from their loot.
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Police sources said that after they were arrested and detained based on confessions they made it an attempts to bribe detectives with N66m, the middle-aged man walked into the anti corruption unit of Zone 2 with a lawyer and identifed himself as a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, serving in Edo state.
He reportedly went further to seek for the bail of the two suspects promising to produce them any time they are wanted.
It was gathered that when he was told to produce his identity card as a police officer, he presented a police warrant card but on closer scrutiny, it was discovered that in the warrant card, his picture with beards showed that he was hanging the rank of an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, while his rank was boldly written as Deputy Superintendent of Police.
“Furthermore, according to police sources, when detectives turned the back of the warrant card that he presented where the Inspector General of Police was supposed to sign, an undecipherable signature with abbreviation DCD dated 13th May, 2024, was seen.
“This, reports said, heightened the curiosity of detectives and he was subjected to more interrogation which ended in his opening up to confess that he just prepared the warrant card in a car park and fixed his passport photograph after appending a signature in it”.
He further confessed that he is a police inspector serving at Anti kidnapping unit in Edo state and that the suspects are his friends.
The police source said: ” He told us that he came into the force as an ICT specialist in 2014 with a diploma in Computer Science before he later went for conversion in Jos.” He said he did not tell anybody that he was travelling to Lagos to help the suspects and that he bought the warrant card from ‘one corner’ near a motor park while he affixed the passpot in his phone to the card.
He said that he does not have any ID card but had to forge this because he was soliciting for the bail of the suspects and that he signed it himself.
It was learned that based on these shocking confessions, he was detained at the station while detectives are intensifying efforts to ascertain the veracity of all his claims and the level of relationship with the suspects.
Meanwhile, it was also gathered that after the arrest and detention of the suspected international fraudsters who police alledge operates no fewer that 100 bank accounts in different countries of the world, the command was inundated with many telephone calls by eminient personalities seeking for the suspects to be let off the hook.
Reports said an entirely different story was packaged by the callers with the intention of disparaging the police and alledging that the suspects were innocent.
However, a police source assured that all the efforts will come to nothing and plans have been concluded to charge all the suspects to court.
