Five Fake NSCDC Officers Nabbed In Ilorin

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The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC on has disclosed that they have arrested five suspects who were going about petrol stations in Ilorin metropolis collecting money from them claiming that they are civil defence officers

on national assignment from Abuja.

The spokesman of the NSCDC in the state Babawale Zaid Afolabi revealed this in a release made available to the newsmen in ilorin on Tuesday adding that further investigations have commenced to confirm whether the suspects are running a syndicate with other members also operating throughout the 16 local government areas of the state.

” On the 8th of March, 2022 at about 1422 hours, out anti vandal unit led by ACC Yusuf Ayinde Olatunji got an intelligence report that some group of men, who put on uniforms of civil defence have been going around filling stations in Ilorin metropolis claiming to be members of national task force on assignment from Abuja, after meeting the managers of the petrol stations , they will collect money from them, as the petrol sellers believe that they were officers of the NSCDC”. Babawale narrated

According to the CDPRO, the suspects; Saheed Adedayo,37, Muritala oloruntoyin, 40, Emmanuel Ferife,45, Abiodun Oluseun, 44 and Isaac Aluko, 43 all claimed to be members of the Importers Association of Nigeria and have been going around extorting money frim unsuspected petrol sellers.

Luck however ran out of them as they got to a filling station at Amilegbe area of Ilorin as the office of the anti vandal unit was contacted by the management of the petrol station. The unit patrol team later swung into action and the five suspects were arrested.

During the interrogation the suspects admitted to be doing illegal duties though maintained to be members of the importers Association of Nigeria and were going about filling stations to gather intelligence reports

in the meantime, the commandant of the NSCDC in the state Makinde Iskil Ayinla has appealed to the petrol stations and the people of the state at large to be wary of the unscrupulous elements who will like to use this period of fuel scarcity to perpetrate their criminal activities advising them to carry out all the necessary due dilligence before dealing with any group or individuals claiming to be security operatives.

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