A 62-year-old self-acclaimed colonel, one Babatunde Idris, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command.
Parading the fake colonel before newsmen in Ibadan, the state Commissioner of Police, CP, Leye Oyebade, said Idris was arrested after a petition was filed against him for parading himself as a colonel in the Nigerian Army where he used a fake identity card to defraud one Yinusa Mustapha to the tune of N40m.
According to the CP,
Oyebade said the suspect forged various letterheads of the Nigerian Army which he issued to unsuspecting individuals and corporate organisations soliciting assistance.
“He also had multiple identities under fake names all bearing the status of a colonel,”
Confessing before newsmen, the suspect said he collected the money from his victim in installments, but denied that the money was up to N40m.
“I signed the form, but truly I am not a military man. One of my brothers is a general in the army. One day, he gave me a letter to help somebody, so I made a copy of it,”
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