I AM INTO IMPERSONATION BECAUSE MY FORMER EMPLOYER REFUSED TO PAY MY RETIREMENT BENEFITS, SAYS SUSPECT
Speaking further, he claimed to be a warrant officer explaining that his salary in the military for 35 years only rose to N84, 000 and that he couldn’t safe because of the need to take care of four children.
“I retired five months ago as a warrant officer in Calabar after entering Army since 1982. The truth is that I don’t have anything again to eat and using this uniform, drivers give me money like N1,500 to maintain myself, God Almighty Father know, I don’t have any problem with anybody’, he said.
“My last salary was N84, 000 and I wasn’t making any savings, I have four children, they are in Jigawa State and I train them where would I get any savings? I haven’t been paid my pension and no gratuity and I need to maintain myself that is why I used this initiative because I still have my uniform, until they pay you in Nigeria Army, your uniform is still with you.”
The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ilyasu also disclosed that, a fraudster syndicate were arrested, adding that the gang engaged in fooling unsuspecting passengers by hypnotising them, and later take victims to the nearby Automated Teller Machine point and disposed them of cash.
The police boss, told journalists that, the syndicate specialized in driving commercial taxi cab pretending to be drivers and simulated passengers to dupe the unsuspecting members of the public, adding that the suspects included Leonard Ifeanyi, Tajudeen Erinosho and Ashimiyu Olaniyan.
