A
man who defrauded two police commissioners has been jailed. Mohammed
Isah was sentenced by an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, to two years’
imprisonment for defrauding the Anambra and Ondo states Commissioners of
Police of N154,000.
While the Anambra CP was duped of N150,000, his counterpart in Ondo State was swindled of N4,000.
The court held that Isah was guilty of the offence and handed him the sentence without option of fine.
The
convict was said to have operated in Anambra, Ondo and Lagos states
between June and December 7, 2015, before he was arrested by the police
in Lagos.
The
Katsina-born convict had gone to the Lagos State Police Command’s
X-Squad Department in Ikeja to complain that some policemen attached to
the Rapid Response Squad collected N188, 200 from him.
A
police officer, ACP Edward Ajogun, who had served in the Ondo Police
Command before he was transferred to Lagos in September, reportedly met
him making the complaint.
It
was learnt that Ajogun had witnessed a similar scenario of the convict
framing some policemen in Ondo with the sole aim of getting compensated.
Isah,
who was immediately arrested, had reportedly implicated policemen in
Ondo and Anambra states by taking the number plates of their patrol
vehicles to the state police headquarters on the claims that they
extorted money from him.
It
was said that the Anambra Commissioner of Police had paid him N150,000
after he alleged that the cops from the command swindled him of
N270,000.
Isah,
who had used a pseudonym, Musa Mulamba, also accused a team of six
policemen on patrol in Akure, Ondo State, of extorting N140, 000 from
him.
But the state CP gave him N4, 000 for reporting the matter to the command.
Our correspondent learnt that the allegation led to the dismissal of the six cops.
Isah
had on December 12 pleaded guilty to the three counts bordering on
fraud when he was arraigned before the court’s Chief Magistrate, Mrs.
O.A. Olayinka.
The
magistrate consequently sentenced him to two years in prison for each
of the three counts, adding that the jail terms would run concurrently
without option of fine.
Source: PunchNg
