By Miriam Humbe
Police operatives attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department of the Nasarawa State Police Command have arrested Shuaibu Isiaka aka Ziko, a 58 years old man of Tudun Gwandara in Lafia for Name-dropping the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule and defrauding an unsuspecting member of the public to the tune of Seventeen Million (N17,000,000) Naira.
DSP Ramhan Nansel, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) disclosed this in a statement signed for the Commissioner of Police Nasarawa State Police Command, CP Umar Shehu Nadada.
Humsimedia Online gathered that the arrest was consequent upon a petition filed against the suspect who obtained money under false pretense from the victim under the guise of being offered a contract by the Nasarawa State government.
Upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to the commission of the crime, but stated that the amount obtained from the victim was Fourteen million and not Seventeen million as alleged.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Umar Shehu Nadada has ordered thorough investigation into the case and tasked the investigators to go after anyone found to be connected to the commission of the offence, no matter how highly placed.
He thereafter urged members of the public to be wary of smooth-criminals who have mastered the act of talking about famous people to impress, in order not to fall prey to their antics.
