By Babatunde Philips

Ado Ekiti

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Ekiti State Command has paraded two male suspects for offences bordering on Stealing, obtaining assets under false pretence, impersonations and fraud.

According to a Statement made available to the press by the CDPRO Tolu Afọlábí , the suspects Ademiluyi Ayodeji 36 and Innocent Ekpo were arrested in separate locations.

Ademiluyi  was said to have been parading himself as a medical doctor under the falsehood with which he defrauded POS operators by sending fake alert to them and collecting cash from them.

One of the tricks of the suspect is to use Bank Application to make false transaction after which he would receive a fake call from his fake hospital that a patient needs his urgent attention. The POS operator will then consider his status and allow him to go only for the POS operator to later discover that he or she has been duped.

“He has been doing this within Ado Ekiti Metropolis defrauding over twenty five POS operators before men of Counter Terrorism Unit launched a manhunt for him with their dragnet which paid of when he was arrested yesterday. Preliminary investigation showed that he is not a doctor but an okada rider.”

Another Suspect named Innocent Ekpako 26 was arrested in Ikom in Cross River state. Innocent was alleged to have ran away with a huge some of money belonging to his master in Ado Ekiti.

The suspect was a former employee of a store in Ado Ekiti where he worked as a sales representative before he was sent on an errand with some money which he did not return.

He has disappeared into thin air until he was tracked, traced and arrested in Cross River state. The two suspects have confessed to the crime.

On this development, the state Commandant Mr. John Olatunde Fayemi has warned POS operators and shop owners in the state to be careful of their workers and customers as the state command has been inaundated with complaints bordering on POS fraud and stealing which is not too good for the state.

The commandant read a riot act to criminal elements in the state to either vacate the state or change from their evil ways as the command and her crime fighters’ units are ever ready to trace, track and arrest culprits wherever they are for the law to punish them accordingly.

He vowed that the suspects will be charged to court as soon as the command concluded investigations on the matter .