Visa scam: Police arrest four for impersonation

The police in Abuja has arrested four persons (names withheld) who attempted to use names of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to obtain French visa.

Presenting themselves as meteorologists in the employ of FAAN, the suspects were picked up at the French Embassy after they tendered documents with fake FAAN’s letter-headed papers, signed by one of the accomplices who claimed to be the agency’s director of training.

Officials of the embassy were said to have smelt a rat and called FAAN, which disowned the suspects and promptly alerted the police.

They are all currently detained at Nnamdi Azikie International Airport police station, where the police is continuing investigation into the matter.

It was learnt that while three of the suspects, including a woman, were arrested last Wednesday at the French Embassy in Abuja, one was picked up at Kubwa area of Abuja.

FAAN’s Managing Director, Mr. Richard Aisuebeogun, was said to have dissociated the agency from the visa scam and refuted the claims by the suspects that they were FAAN staff.

He was said to have explained that the agency had no meteorologists in its employ, as the agency had nothing to do with weather forecast.