{"id":169772,"date":"2019-11-22T16:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169772"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:21:08","slug":"seven-men-arraigned-over-alleged-impersonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169772","title":{"rendered":"Seven men arraigned over alleged impersonation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Abuja-Police-react-to-messages-on-25-missing-children.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Police on Friday arraigned seven men before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court for allegedly conspiring and impersonating members of the Nigerian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants are, Ndidi Ohuchukwu, 27; Owolabi Adeyemi, 47; David Olufemi, 47; Samuel Iseyin, 41; Emeka Ibe, 31; Samuel Anochime, 36; and Stephen Ebedot, 37.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Police Prosecutor, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, the defendants conspired and portrayed themselves as military men by wearing full Nigerian Army Camouflage, a representation they knew to be false.<\/p>\n<p>Ayorinde alleged that the defendants committed the offences with others still at large on Sept. 10 about 6.30 p. m. in Ikotun, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cThe defendants were apprehended when they could not give a satisfactory ownership of the camouflage uniforms in their possession\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B. O. Osunsanmi, admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N200, 000 with two sureties in like sum.<\/p>\n<p>She ordered that the sureties must be gainfully employed with an evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government and reside within the court\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the alleged offences contravene Sections 77(a)(b) and 411 of the Criminal laws of Lagos State 2015, (Revised).<\/p>\n<p>Impersonating armed forces attracts three years jail term, while conspiracy is punishable with two years imprisonment upon conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The Magistrate adjourned the case until Dec. 11 for mention.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police on Friday arraigned seven men before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court for allegedly conspiring and impersonating members of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The defendants are, Ndidi Ohuchukwu, 27; Owolabi Adeyemi, 47; David Olufemi, 47; Samuel Iseyin, 41; Emeka Ibe, 31; Samuel Anochime, 36; and Stephen Ebedot, 37. The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153683,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,2830,3],"tags":[11201,61],"class_list":["post-169772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-law","category-news","tag-impersonation","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169772","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=169772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}