A man who has been parading himself as a senior army officer
in the Amaja community in Igbo-Eze North Local Council of Enugu State, causing
havoc and terrorising the people as well as raping young girls in the area, has
been arrested by the state Police Command.
Identified as Felix James, the fake army officer was said to
be playing on the ignorance of the people and their fear of the military to
intimidate them, walking about freely as a genuine army officer until he was
nabbed by detectives from the Nsukka Command who had been trailing him for a
long time, pulse.ng reported.
The fake officer, in his confession to the police after his
arrest, said he had tried several times to be enlisted in the Nigerian army
without success, adding that he procured the uniform and camouflages through
the help of one of his friends.
Hear him: “My friend Regean Igbonekwu, whose father was a
retired soldier, gave me the army uniform to wear to convince my parents that I
had successfully joined the Nigerian Army.
I came back in November 2014 with the army uniform and since
then till now, I have never worn the uniform again. I paid Reggan a total sum
of N80, 000 for the army uniforms he supplied to me.”
The suspect added that he was selling cosmetic products in
Kogi State before he decided to join the army and failed, explaining that he
left secondary school in 2012 and took the army recruitment examination for two
consecutive times without success.
“Everybody in the community knew that I went for the army
recruitment but they didn’t know that I was not successful. I am a married man
with one child and my wife even thinks I am an army officer.”
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