A panel beater, Sunday Oka, who allegedly impersonated a naval officer in Enugu, has been nabbed while attempting to effect the release of two fraudsters from police custody.
It was learnt that Oka, a native of Ebonyi State, who resides in Obosi, Anambra State, has been posing as a naval officer before his arrest by operatives of the New Haven Division of the Enugu State Police Command on February 26.
It was also gathered that he had on several occasions defrauded residents of Enugu and parts of Anambra State, who never suspected that he was not a naval officer as he claimed.
But he ran out of luck when he went to the New Haven Police Station to effect the release of two suspected fraudsters, Abea Johnson and Henry Nwankwo.
Johnson and Nwankwo said to reside in Onitsha, Anambra State, had been arrested for being in possession of fake currency notes.
Police sources informed Southern City News that the two fraudsters habitually defrauded shopkeepers by making purchases with counterfeit notes while also obtaining genuine currencies as change.
Johnson and Nwankwo have been in the custody of the police in New Haven, Enugu, since December 17, 2015 when they were apprehended in the process of making purchases with fake naira notes.
It was learnt that fake N1, 000 currency notes, totaling about N45,000, was recovered from Johnson and Nwankwo at the time they were arrested.
Oka, the fake naval officer, got involved in the matter after he allegedly extorted the sum of N34, 000 from Nwankwo’s wife, Charity, with an assurance that he would secure her husband’s release.
Oka was arrested when the operatives discovered that he was a fake naval officer.
The spokesman of the Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the development, said Oka and the two other suspects, Johnson and Nwankwo, would be charged to court.
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