Police arrests Bauchi Polytechnic student who parades himself as an Army Lieutenant to defraud people

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Gombe has arrested a male student of the Bauchi State Polytechnic for defrauding unsuspecting members of the public by posing as a Lieutant in the Nigerian Army.

The student, identified as Eze Mavus Ugochukwu is studying Computer Science in the university.

Linda Ikeji blog said Ugochukwu, an indigene of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State was arrested by the officers of 33 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Shadawanka Barracks, Bauchi State and handed over to the Gombe Zonal Office of the EFCC for further investigation and possible prosecution.

This follows a complaint lodged by one Mrs Dorcas Oni that the suspect presented himself to her as a Lieutenant in Nigerian Army and told her that he would assist her in securing admission for her son into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) for which he made her transfer the sum of N400, 000.00 (Four Hundred Thousand Naira) to his account, Linda Ikeji reports.

EFCC in a statement released, said it was discovered that the suspect has defrauded some other victims to the tune of N1, 455,000.00 (One Million, Four Hundred and Fifty Five Thousand Naira), using the same military bait.

All the proceeds of crime were paid into his two bank accounts domiciled in FCMB and STANBIC IBTC, between December 2019 and July 2020.

"Investigations further revealed that the suspect succeeded in making his victims believe he was a military officer by photo-shopping military officers’ uniforms and superimposing the image of his face on them, complementing the fraud by attaching his name tag on the uniforms'' the statement released

He was also discovered to have forged military documents which he passed off to his victims as genuine in a bid to convince them that he would secure NDA admission for them.

EFCC said the suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.