{"id":392188,"date":"2021-09-08T20:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=392188"},"modified":"2021-09-08T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:28:13","slug":"man-38-in-police-net-for-fraud-forgery-impersonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=392188","title":{"rendered":"Man, 38 in police net for fraud, forgery, impersonation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Police personnel under Kano State Command have arrested a 38 years old suspected notorious fraudster who poses as an agent of the National Cotton Association of Nigeria under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrower Programme to defraud unsuspecting members of the public using fake documents.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Buhari Hassan was arrested after the Command received 64 complaints from members of the public who the suspect defrauded.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, the Command\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer in a statement on Wednesday said upon receiving the report, the Commissioner of Police, Kano State Command, CP Sama\u2019ila Shu\u2019aibu Dikko raised and instructed a team of Policemen led by SP Shehu Dahiru to arrest the culprit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team immediately swung into action and arrested the suspect at Yankaba Quarters, Kano, after he had swindled Muttaka Muhammad, \u2018m\u2019, Lawal Mohammed, \u2018m\u2019 and Habibu Muhammad, \u2018m\u2019, all of Yankaba Quarters, Nassarawa LGA Kano of the sum of Seven Hundred Thousand Naira (N700,000.00).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect was caught in possession of Forty Seven (47) fake ID Cards bearing different names, photographs and other falsified documents of the National Cotton Association of Nigeria, Kano State Chapter. Further search led to the recovery of the Computer he used in printing the forged documents\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to DSP Kiyawa during interrogation, the suspect revealed that he had worked with the National Cotton Association of Nigeria in Kano, but was dismissed after he forged their documents.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect confessed to parading himself as a staff of the National Cotton Association of Nigeria to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout Sixty Four (64) persons have reported that the suspect defrauded them the sum of Six Million, Two Hundred and Ninety-Four Thousand, Two Hundred Naira (N6,294,200.00).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Police, CP Sama\u2019ila Shu\u2019aibu Dikko, fsi (Nagari-Nakowa) has ordered for discreet investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuspect will be charged to court upon completion of investigation\u201d, the PPRO added.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police personnel under Kano State Command have arrested a 38 years old suspected notorious fraudster who poses as an agent of the National Cotton Association of Nigeria under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrower Programme to defraud unsuspecting members of the public using fake documents. The suspect, Buhari Hassan was arrested after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392189,"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":[2197,866,61],"class_list":["post-392188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-cbn","tag-efcc","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392188","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=392188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/392189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}