Police operatives attached to Nasarawa State Criminal Investigation Department, Lafia have arrested a fake commissioner, Abdulkadir Ibrahim for defrauding unsuspecting victims the sum of a huge sum of money by providing them with fake employment.

According to the Nasarawa State Police Command, Abdulkadir, who is 27-year-old from Azara, Awe LGA of Nasarawa State has been impersonating Barr. Mamman Toro Alakayi, the commissioner representing Nasarawa state at Federal Character Commission and defrauded unsuspecting members of the public to the tune of Nine Million Naira (#9,000,000).

In a statement by DSP Ramhan Nansel, Nasarawa State Police Public Relations Officer, the suspect has been posing on one of the social media platforms as Barr. Mamman Toro Alakayi and fraudulently obtained money from members of the public under the guise of giving them employment at Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corp, Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigeria Correctional service, Independent National Electoral Commission and Federal Inland Revenue Service.

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Consequently, a search warrant was executed at his residence where two appointment letters from the National Taskforce (NATFORCE) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were recovered; also, six (6) documentation forms from the Nigerian Immigration Service all bearing different names were subsequently recovered from the suspect as exhibit and has confessed to the commission of the crime.

Below are some of the incriminating documents recovered from him;

The investigation is ongoing at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Lafia upon conclusion, he will be charged to a court of competent jurisdiction for prosecution.