Leadership (Abuja)
Chizoba Ogbeche
20 November 2009
Abuja — The Police in the Federal Capital Territory have arrested one Jafaru Ahmadu Derma for posing as a judge of the Appeal Court, even as Austin Nwaokoro and Ikechukwu Omaya were also arrested for posing as officials of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Addressing newsmen yesterday in Abuja, the acting Police Commissioner, Mr. Stephen Ekpei said Derma, who was arrested in a hotel located in the Utako area of the FCT, had contacted the former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, posing as Justice Muktar of the Court of Appeal.
The suspect, he said, had demanded N2million from the former governor. Derma was however, found to be fake when the Judge was eventually contacted by Bafarawa and it was discovered that no such demand had been made by him from the Sokoto State-born politician.
The matter was said to have been referred to the Police, leading to the arrest of the Kaduna-born judicial worker, Saturday in Abuja.
In a related development, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Administration, also paraded the duo of Nwaokoro and Omaya who were arrested for extorting money from Adaobi Ejepu, Abazie Chukwunonso and Chioma Okeke, all prospective corps members from a university in Anambra State.
Nwaokoro, 24, a serving corps member teaching in a secondary school in the FCT, working with Omaya who was discovered to run a boutique in Kubwa, a suburb in Abuja, was said to have provided NYSC kits for the trio in exchange for an undisclosed sum of money.
Luck, however ran out of the Oraifite, Anambra kits born youth corps member and his partner who were said to be responsible for keeping the kits in his shop and issuing them to clients on payment of the agreed sum, when neighbours alerted the Police of the suspicious transactions of the duo.
Speaking further on what he termed "huge breakthrough" of the command in crime prevention, detention and control, the acting Police commissioner said officers and men of the command had successfully smashed two gangs of armed robbers terrorising residents of Utako district and Dutse Alhaji respectively.
According to him, proactive and intelligent policing strategies saw Prince Ndubusi Ozor of Area 8, Lugbe and Tony Momoh of Madala village in Niger State arrested, even as one Berretta pistol with six-round life ammunitions, two plastic toy pistols, a mask and two wallets containing N30, 000, among others were recovered from the duo suspected to be members the first gang.
Similarly, one Azubuike Ani, alleged to have led the Dutse Alhaji gang was shut death in a gun dual with the Police following a distress call on a robbery operation in a premises in Zone 5. One locally made pistol, seven Nokia phones, and a small box containing jewellery, the DCP, said, were recovered from the deceased while attempts are on to arrest other members of the gang.
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