{"id":296076,"date":"2020-12-23T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=296076"},"modified":"2020-12-23T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:14:52","slug":"police-arrest-man-for-impersonating-super-eagles-captain-ahmed-musa-defrauding-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=296076","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest man for impersonating Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, defrauding people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Police Command in Kano State has arrested one 30-year-old man, Gambo Yakubu, for allegedly parading himself as Ahmed Musa, the Captain of the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Abdullahi Haruna, the spokesman for the Command, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Haruna explained that the Command on March 25, at about 11:30 pm received a complaint from one Musa Muhammad, the Manager of Ahmed Musa Sports Centre, Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>He said Muhammad reported that the suspect, who was a former worker at the Centre, used to parade himself as Ahmed Musa.<\/p>\n<p>The Spokesman alleged that the suspect forged documents bearing the name of the former Leicester City star and used it to defraud innocent citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn receiving the complaint, the Commissioner of Police, Kano State, Mr Ahmad, directed a team of detectives led by CSP Abdulkarim Abdullahi to arrest the culprit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn December 20, the suspect was arrested and confessed to having defrauded more than 15 innocent citizens by collecting money from them pretending to be Ahmad Musa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was also alleged to be selling forms at N5,000 each to youths who want to play football abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe collected over N700,000; and spent the money in hotels on his girlfriends in Kano,\u2019\u2019 Haruna stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Command in Kano State has arrested one 30-year-old man, Gambo Yakubu, for allegedly parading himself as Ahmed Musa, the Captain of the Super Eagles. DSP Abdullahi Haruna, the spokesman for the Command, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Haruna explained that the Command on March 25, at about 11:30 pm received a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296077,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[10271,9973],"class_list":["post-296076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-ahmed-musa","tag-super-eagles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296076","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=296076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}