{"id":136814,"date":"2019-07-19T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136814"},"modified":"2019-07-19T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:23:39","slug":"efcc-arrests-immigration-officer-14-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136814","title":{"rendered":"EFCC arrests Immigration Officer, 14 others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EFCC-nabs-5-suspected-Yahoo-boys-in-Kaduna.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal office, has arrested a Nigeria Immigration Service officer, Mr Adebimpe Kehinde, for his alleged involvement in passport racketeering.<\/p>\n<p>EFCC acting spokesman, Mr Tony Orilade in a statement in Abuja on Thursday said that Kehinde is an Immigration Assistant, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to Orilade, Kehinde was arrested alongside 14 other suspected passport racketeers following intelligence reports received by the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are Nnadika Timothy, Oyeyiga Samuel, Sunday Adekunle, Lola Kadoso, Adebayo Damilola, Adeola Oluwafikayomi Ajiboshin, Abubakri Adebayo.<\/p>\n<p>Others are Uka Ifeanyi, Raph Emeka Ibuaku, Henry Onyebuchi, Christy Odey, Aba-Peter Blessing, Ogunmefun Oluwanishola and Busayo Balogun.<\/p>\n<p>Orilade said that the suspects allegedly conspired to extort money from unsuspecting members of the public applying for international passports.<\/p>\n<p>He said that items recovered from the suspects at the point of arrest include five laptops, mobile telephones and several official documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded,\u201d he stated.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal office, has arrested a Nigeria Immigration Service officer, Mr Adebimpe Kehinde, for his alleged involvement in passport racketeering. EFCC acting spokesman, Mr Tony Orilade in a statement in Abuja on Thursday said that Kehinde is an Immigration Assistant, NAN reports. According to Orilade, Kehinde was arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[866,7482],"class_list":["post-136814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-efcc","tag-nis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}