Police arrest 16 for using Buhari’s name to scam job seekers in Akwa Ibom (Photos)

 Akwa Ibom State police has arrested 16 persons (10 males and 6 females) at a veranda in a storey building
along Atiku Abubakar Way, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State for allegedly defrauding job seekers using the name of president Muhammadu Buhari.



The Akwa Ibom State Command of Nigerian Police Force says those arrested will be arraigned in the court. The Leader of the gang one Felix Obonka from Delta State has gone into hiding. Items recovered from those arrested includes physical cash of One Hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred naira (N199,800.00) and two set of forms for Empowerment and Surveillance.

Read according to the press statement published by the Akwa Ibom state Police Force on their Facebook page:

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he attention of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command has been drawn to a press briefing by the Niger Delta Youths, Woman and Security Movement for Buhari.

To set the records straight and give a clear picture of issues raised by the organization, the command has chosen to correct the bogus claims and allegations raised.

On the 30th day of June, 2017 actionable intelligence was received by a team of detectives from the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department of the Command that a group of people were selling forms to unsuspecting members of the public to be recruited as Law Enforcement Officers using the guise of employment.

Therefore, detectives were mobilized to the scene a veranda in a storey building along Atiku Abubakar Way, Uyo where 16 persons (10 males and 6 females) were arrested and the following items were recovered from them: physical cash of

One Hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred naira (N199,800.00) and two set of forms for Empowerment and Surveillance.

The group operates with the name “Niger Delta Youths, Women and Security Movement for Buhari”. Investigation revealed that, the group’s (membership and surveillance) sold forms were purchased at the rate of six thousand naira (N6,000.00) and N15, 000.00 respectively.