25-Year-Old Man Nabbed By Police For Impersonating A Soldier
A 25-year-old man identified as Moris Mbam, who has been previously been parading himself as a soldier of the Nigerian Army in Ebonyi state and outside the state has been apprehended by the police in Ebonyi state.
While parading the suspect before the media, the Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi state known as Muhammed Mustafa, stated that Moris Mbam who comes from Izzi local government area of the state, was apprehended by police operatives attached to the Central Police Station, Abakaliki, at a commercial bank in Enugu, while attempting to withdraw money from his illegal activities previously done.
According to the Commissioner of Police in the state, the suspect was popular in Ebonyi for making use of his fake Army uniform to extort money and goods of people and traders in the state.
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On Christmas day in 2018, Moris Mbam had used the same method to extort occupants of a building in Abakalili. the state capital, He took possession of N40, 000 and a Tecno phone from the occupants of a building after he held them hostage for about 2 hours.
The commissioner of Police in Ebonyi state said:
“He has been taking people hostage and as he went about intimidating people and claiming that he was a soldier, the police got wind of his activities and our men swung into action and got him arrested. And before his arrest, he had been on our wanted list and he was arrested on January 11, 2019. He had for long been parading himself as a soldier before the operatives of the Nigeria Police from the ‘A’ Division (i.e. Central Police Station Abakaliki) arrested him.”
When questioned by police operatives, the suspect, Moris Mbam, confessed to his participation in the offence. Mbam said:
“I’m from the Okpuitim community in the Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. I’m not a soldier. I was parading myself as a soldier because I sold a phone to somebody last year worth N10,000, but the man gave me N7,000. So, when I came back in November last year from the city, I asked him to pay the balance of N3,000 and he refused. I met his landlord and told him to tell the man that I am a soldier that he should pay me my money or I would take action. I did that so that the man would pay me the N3,000. I have never used a soldier camouflage; I only said that I was a soldier in order to make the man pay my money fast. I’m an engineer.”
The commissioner of police in Ebonyi further stated that he would be arraigned in court soon.
