Man With Fake N100,000 Naira Notes Arrested By Ametekun In Ekiti State Amid Naira Scarcity
Operatives of the Ametekun corps have arrested a man identified as
Celestine for having fake newly designed N1000 notes totaling about N100, 000.
The commander of the corps Brigadier General Joe Komolafe
(retd) revealed this while parading the suspects at the corps headquarters in
Ado-Ekiti. According to the corps commander,
the suspect was arrested in Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti East Local Government Area of the
state.
The commander further revealed that the suspect was arrested
after a POS operator raised an alarm in the community after discovering that he
has fake naira notes in his possession.
“Amotekun operatives were alerted by some
Point of Sale operators on the discovery of the fake new naira notes in the
area. On receipt of the information, our men swung into action and arrested the
suspect with large quantities of the fake naira notes,” Komolafe said.
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“Our men were reliably informed that the suspect came into the
community with about N250,000 fake new N1,000 notes. He is currently undergoing
interrogations at our office here. He will be handed over to the police for
further probe and prosecution on completion of our investigation on the
matter,"
The Amotekun commander warned members of the public, "to be
aware of the activities of those he called unscrupulous persons who may want to
use the opportunity of the scarcity of cash in the country to dupe members of
the public with fake new naira notes.”
“He
said he specializes in buying kola and bitter Kola saying he was also paid with
cash in Lagos,"
“The
suspect went to a local area in Omuo and started spending the money before we
got a hint and went after him. He said he specializes in buying kola and bitter
Kola saying he was also paid with cash in Lagos,”
“On interrogation, he confessed to the crime and
said he was given two hundred and fifty thousand from a factory in Lagos but
only one hundred thousand nairas was found with him as he had spent N150,000 in
the area.”
While
relating his side of the story to newsmen the suspect claimed that he is a
businessman from Lagos and he is heading to Isanlu in Kogi State to buy bitter
kola and kola nuts before he was arrested.
The suspect further claimed that he collected the
fake naira notes from a customer in Lagos and he did not know that it was counterfeit
money.
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