2 UNICAL students arrested for conducting fake army recruitment

Two students of the University of Calabar who have been impersonating military officers on their Facebook pages which they used in defrauding their clients by conducting fake army recruitment have been arrested.

According to Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, the State Commissioner of Police, the suspects who were arrested by men of the state police command on October 22, 2017, were nabbed after various complaints.

Inuwa said; “On October 21, 2017, we got a tip-off through our public complaints unit that one Mr. Reuben Bartholomew, had been duped by Daniel Onuta, 22, and Emmanuel Mba, 20.

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“Upon receiving this information, our men swung into action and the two suspects were arrested. During interrogation, they both confessed to have defrauded Reuben Bartholomew of the sum of N400,000.

“One of the suspects, Onuta, claimed to be a colonel, while Mba impersonated a major. The suspects will soon be charged to court,” he added.

The CP said while parading 72 robbery other suspects arrested within the state in the last three months (majority of them youths) that the command was determined to surmount the security challenges and other forms of illegalities across the state.

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