27-yr-old man arrested for staging fake Navy recruitment, defrauding applicant of N50,000

The long arm of the law has caught up with Yohanna Ahmadu, 27, for staging a fake army recruitment drive and also issuing his victim identified as Adamu Ibrahim with a fake navy appointment letter.

Reports say the suspect who was arrested in the Kubwa area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory also collected the sum of N50,000 from his victim to facilitate his fake recruitment into the Navy.

Confirming his arrest, the Navy Director of Information, Captain Suleman Dahun, who revealed that recruitment into the service was free, warned interested Nigerians to beware of fake recruitment rings and websites.

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He said; “We arrested the recruitment fraudster for allegedly attempting to defraud one Mr. Adamu Ibrahim during the last nationwide recruitment exercise. The Commander, Naval unit, Abuja, Commodore Gbolahan Olubode–Fazaz said the suspect charged his victim N50,000 and promised to enlist him in the Nigerian Navy.

“The suspect also directed the victim to the Nigerian Air Force Base, Kaduna, promising that his boss would assist in the exercise. Ahmadu thereafter collected the victim’s passport photograph, photocopies of credentials and a urine sample for a fake test.

“The suspect demanded the sum of N50,000 from his victim before releasing a fake Nigerian Navy appointment letter which he would use to report for the training at the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School, Onne, Port Harcourt. But he ran out of luck when the victim called a Naval personnel complaining of this extortion.

“He was directed to play along by promising to pay the amount upon their return to Abuja, where he was lured to a Diamond Bank branch in Kubwa and was arrested. He has been handed over to the police for further investigation and possible prosecution.”

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