Beware of fraudsters -CP Akwa Ibom warns residents
As Command nabbed two (2) fraudsters over fake bank alerts and recovered Lexus 330 Salon Car
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command, on 18/1/2021, relying on credible information, that a Lexus 330 salon car was bought with fake bank alert at Festac Town, Lagos State, trailed the said car to Uyo via Abia State and in a coordinated operation, and utilizing the instruments of intelligence-driven policing by the Anti- Cultism Unit of the Command, arrested one Emeka John Akuma, ‘m’ of Abia State, along IBB Road by Ibom Hall, driving the car with a fake number plate; Lagos AKD 230 GQ and recovered the said vehicle.
In another development, on 17/1/2021, Operatives of the same Unit apprehended a POS Operator, one Moses James Asuquo ‘m’, aged 26yrs for fraudulently using fake alert to defraud one Markson Mark Wisdom and Edidiong Samuel Robert of the sum of Two Hundred Thousand (N200,000.00) naira, at his POS stand, situated at Udoudoma Avenue, Uyo.
A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP ODIKO MacDON quoted the Commissioner of Police, CP AMIENGHEME ANDREW as drawing the attention of members of the public to the prevalence of these crimes and called on them to take additional steps in security their cars by inserting security devices and be more vigilant after parking their cars as the Command is inundated of stolen cars.
He has however promised to deal decisively with perpetrators of these and other heinous crimes in any part of the State.
