Kano State Police Command has arrested one Buhari Hassan, a 38-year-old of Sauna Kawaji Quarters, Nassarawa LGA Kano for posing as an agent of the National Cotton Association of Nigeria under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrower Programme to defraud no fewer than 64 unsuspecting members of the public using fake documents.
According to a statement signed by Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, a copy made available on Wednesday to pressmen in Kano, said: “about 64 persons have reported that the suspect defrauded them the sum of N6,294,200.00.”
He disclosed that during interrogation, the suspect revealed he had worked with the National Cotton Association of Nigeria in Kano but was dismissed after he forged their documents. He confessed to parading himself as a staff of the National Cotton Association of Nigeria to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.
His words: “The suspect was caught in possession of Forty Seven (47) fake ID cards bearing different names, photographs and other falsified documents of the National Cotton Association of Nigeria, Kano State chapter. Further search led to the recovery of the computer he used in printing the forged documents.”
DSP Kiyawa, however, disclosed that “on 31/08/2021, at about 1500hrs, information was received from a credible source that, one Buhari Hassan, ‘m’, 38 years old of Sauna Kawaji Quarters, Nassarawa LGA Kano was posing as an agent of National Cotton Association of Nigeria under Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrower Programme to defraud unsuspecting members of the public using fake documents.”
Upon receiving the report, the Commissioner of Police, Kano State Command, CP Sama’ila Shu’aibu Dikko, fsi, raised and instructed a team of policemen led by SP Shehu Dahiru to arrest the culprit.
The team immediately swung into action and arrested the suspect at Yankaba Quarters, Kano, after he had swindled Muttaka Muhammad, ‘m’, Lawal Mohammed, ‘m’ and Habibu Muhammad, ‘m’, all of Yankaba Quarters, Nasarawa LGA Kano of the sum of N700,000.00.
He further disclosed that the Commissioner of Police, CP Sama’ila Shu’aibu Dikko, has ordered for discreet investigation. The suspect will be charged to court upon completion of the investigation.
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