Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ogun state command, at the weekend arrested two suspects: Ademola Abiodun and Ajarat Sulaiman with fake naira notes.
Confirming the arrest in a statement, the Command spokesman, Kareem Olanrewaju said the attention of its official on surveillance was drawn to a mob action around Vespa bus-stop area of Ifo, in Ifo local government area of the state. According to the statement, “The first suspect, who gave his name as Ademola Abiodun, a 28-year-old man residing at Ajiboye street, Ile-Epo, Lagos state, bought food from a vendor hawking food around the bus stop. “He in turn paid the food vendor with a five hundred naira note which the food vendor rejected, saying it was a fake note and this brought a hot argument between them, thereby attracting other people. “The people having got wind of his tactic descended heavily on him until he confessed that, he is in Ifo to meet up an appointment with a woman friend. They asked him to call the woman on phone. “The 30-year-old woman, of Ajilogba, Aso area, Ifo, Ogun state honored the call and when she arrived, the mob pounced on her too beating them thoroughly and were about to burn them with tyre when NSCDC officials on patrol arrived the scene. “If not for the quick intervention of our officers, who pleaded, struggled with the angry mob to collect the suspects from them and even promised that the suspects will face the full wrath of law, they would have been set on fire”, the statement said. “The officials, after rescuing the suspects alive from the mob, took them to the Civil Defence Corps office at Ifo and upon interrogation, the female suspect, Ajarat who said she is jobless, denied ever having any appointment with the man, though, she confirmed they knew each other. “When Abiodun was searched, more fake naira notes were found on him and he claimed to have collected the fake naira notes from another friend of his, when he assured him that he would spend them, despite the fact that he admitted he knew the notes were fake.” The NSCDC spokesman, in the statement, advised people not to always take laws into their hands. He further assured the people of prompt reaction from all security agencies to any scene of action across the state, stating that the duo had been handed over to the Nigeria Police at Ifo Police division for further investigation and prosecution. The spokesman said exhibits recovered from the suspects include two phones and fourteen pieces of fake five hundred naira notes.
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