Cops nab two suspects for printing, issuing fake INEC voters’ card

The long arm of the law has caught up with two suspects identified as Are Aberdeen and Giwa Monsuru, a diploma holder in Civil Engineering who both specialise in printing and issuing fake Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, permanent voters’ cards.

The pair were nabbed in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State by operatives of the Zonal Intervention Squad, ZIS, Zone 2 Police Command following a tip-off by a well-meaning Nigerian who suspected their activities.

According to a police source; “We got information that these suspects were printing and issuing fake INEC voters’ cards to people who need it to do bank transactions.

“A police decoy team was detailed to track them and we got them arrested. Two laptops and a fake INEC card were recovered from them,” the source added.
In his confessional statement, one of the suspects, Monsuru said he was arrested on his way to deliver the fake voters card to a woman.

Mosuru said; “On Thursday last week, there was a lady that I met around General Hospital, Ikorodu, who came to me that she is in need of a voter’s card.

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“She claimed that one of her sisters was in coma and she wanted to withdraw money but the bank asked her to bring her voter’s card.

“I tried to convince her to go and get affidavit, but she insisted that she wanted a voter’s card. I said this thing you want to do is illegal, but she insisted. I then collected her information.

“I did not know that the woman was a policewoman. I thought she was one of the genuine customers. We usually don’t print PVC for anybody except they are directed to us by those we have worked for.

“I don’t do it for Yahoo guys. In fact, this is the first one I have ever done. I only charged her N5000 and I gave the printer N1000. I was earning only N6,000 a month where I was working before.

“That couldn’t take me anywhere with my wife and a baby. I don’t really have a job again. I am just hustling to eat.”

The arrest of the suspects was confirmed by Dolapo Badmos, the Zone 2, Police Command Public Relations Officer, a Superintended of Police, who informed that the pair were arrested following intelligence information.

 

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