A 19-year-old Mechanical Engineering student of Delta State
Polytechnic, Ozoro, has being arrested by policemen from the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos Command, for floating a fake Facebook page of
the All Progressive Congress (APC), national leader, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu to
extort money from members of the public.
According to Dailytrust, The suspect, identified as Emmanuel
Otu is said to be a specialist in internet fraud. He was alleged to have posed,
at different occasions, as a prominent Nigerian on Facebook and other social
media platforms to defraud his victims of various amount of money.
Police detectives led by Abba Kyari arrested him from his
hostel in Ozoro, Delta State on May 10, 2015.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, while
addressing news men at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja, on Wednesday stated
that the 19 year-old suspected fraudster created a Facebook page in the name of
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and has been defrauding unsuspecting but obviously
gullible persons.
The Lagos Police boss explained that the undergraduate
student, through the Facebook page claimed to be arranging jobs and contracts
for his would be victims with some of the oil majors operating in Nigeria.
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