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Ponzi scheme: Police arrest four Beninois, two others in Gombe

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January 29, 2022

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Commissioner of Police in the state, Ishola Babaita

The Gombe State Police Command has arrested six suspects over attempt to defraud residents of the state.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ishola Babaita, made this known at a news conference on Friday in Gombe.

Babaita said that the arrest was made possible through its community policing strategy as well as the proactiveness of the command to rid the state of any form of crime and criminalities.

According to him, the six suspects comprise two indigenes of Gombe State and four from Benin Republic, who entered into the country illegally and were arrested in Gombe on January 18.

He said: “On January 18 at 8:30pm, the Command received information that three Hummer buses brought some group of young men numbering about 109.

“Immediately, Police operatives in synergy with the Department of State Services were dispatched to the scene and the people were invited to the DSS facility, where they were interrogated.

“The two Nigerians were transferred to the police for discrete investigations and possible prosecution, while the four Beninois were handed over to the Nigerian Immigration Service, which later returned them back to the police.”

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Babaita said during the interrogation, the suspects claimed that they were into online networking business called QNET.

He said that the documents tendered “as Independent Representatives (IR) of the QNRT revealed that an IR is not an employee, agent or official representative of QNET.

“This means that as IR, they are to be solely responsible for complying with applicable local laws, ethical practices and paying taxes on commissions and assumes all risks related to their IR entrepreneurial activities.”

According Babaita, the 109 youths were recruited into the state by the six suspects to serve as marketers.

He said that based on investigations, it was established that the suspects were into Ponzi scheme to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.

He added that at the conclusion of the investigation, all suspects would be charged to court.

Babaita urged residents of the state to be wary of those they transact business with to avoid being defrauded.

However, one of the suspects, 26-year-old Abdullahi Yusuf from Gombe, while speaking with newsmen, denied that the business was fraudulent, saying it was an online networking.

Yusuf said he started the business in Benin Republic, but decided to come to Gombe State to empower youths with the knowledge of networking.

Yusuf, who insisted that the business was not fraudulent, said he was ready to defend himself in court.

Solomon Micah, a 27-year-old indigene of Taraba State, who was recruited as a marketer, said that he paid N500,000 to register for the business and got $50 as bonus.

The News Agency of Nigeria also reports that some of the alleged marketers were paraded along with the six main suspects at the Police Command Headquarters.

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Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a fake medical doctor practising in the Ikorodu area of the state, with a forged certificate from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

According to a video by the TVC posted on Tuesday, the police said they discovered about 200 patient cards with the fake medical practitioner, Tayo Shakirudeeen, an indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Shakirudeen said he had treated malaria, typhoid, infections and performed operations on children suffering from appendix, after he learnt it where he worked as a Nursing Assistant at The Jones Hospital, Ojokoro along Ikorodu Road.

Asked how many years he had been treating patients with a fake certificate, he said three years claiming that it was his first time performing a proper surgery.

He also said it was a patient he treated that came with the policemen to arrest him, as he regretted his actions.

“I performed vital signs and abdominal scans. Then after confirmation, you do PCV (packed cell volume) and then you prepare the patient for the surgery. You clean the stomach with antiseptic Dettol with water. So after that, you give some anesthesia injection before starting the surgery,” Shakirudden said.

He used a surgical blade “to dissect the stomach, it’s appendix after opening the stomach then you cut the appendix after cutting the stomach then you suction the appendix then you suction the flesh fat and the skin then you pack it with gauze and apply plaster.”

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It was gathered that he only holds SSCE from Majidun Grammar School, as he said he was arrested, “after performing the surgery, the patient has been discharged home. So after like three months, the patient came with the police to arrest me.”

He said there were no complications after treating the patient so he did not know the reason why the patent came back with the police.

“I charged one hundred fifty thousand, and I have six workers. My hospital is located in Ikorodu. It’s a new site but somewhere close to Elepe Estate. I regret every bit of my action so I would never advise anyone or if there’s anyone that is still hiding somewhere and doing such a thing they should desist from it,” he added.

Shakirudeen’s hospital is Skyline Medical Centre and noted that he is a married man with three children

Speaking about the certificate the police found with him, he said, “It’s a forged certificate from Obafemi Awolowo MBBS, Medicine, and Surgery. Nobody taught me, but I used to help my boss when he was performing the surgery.”

“To dissect the stomach, it’s appendix after opening the stomach then you cut the appendix after cutting the stomach then you suction the appendix, then you suction the flesh fat and the skin then you pack it with gauze and apply plaster,” he added.

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Gunmen kidnap 13 persons in Abuja, demand N900m ransom

Suspected gunmen raided Piko, a secluded town in Abuja’s Bwari area council, and kidnapped 13 people.

It was reported that the incident, which began at midnight on Sunday in the village, continued more than an hour without being challenged by either the vigilante group or other security forces.

According to a close community source, Chief John Jatau, the village’s Maidakin, has verified that 10 residents, including four nomadic Fulani herders, were kidnapped from his domain.

He noted that out of the four Fulani people, one escaped from the kidnappers’ custody.

While he said that the kidnappers had demanded a ransom of N900 million, he also gave the names of the kidnapped victims from his community.

According to him, the kidnap victims from the community that are still with their abductors are Nuhu Anyiwoyi, Emmanuel Nuhu, Danjuma Ali, Parisa Numa, Ezekiel Jatau, Shekwosa Ezekiel, Roseline Samuel, Salome Jacob, Abyelo Ezra, and Ezra Male.

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The source said, “The kidnapping incident occurred last night Sunday 05/05/2024, at about 11 pm. The kidnappers raided the village for about one hour without any response, or reaction from the community or outsiders, the major challenge the community faced last night in terms of communication to others was as a result of no telecommunication network in the village, so they picked people’s house to house, from the community they picked about 13 people, and later release three.

“The Madakin Piko informed me that they (gunmen) have called and they said they need the ramson of N900,000,000 (nine hundred million naira). They picked about four Fulani people and one of them is released.”

All possible efforts to reach the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, proved abortive as she neither replied to messages nor picked up calls placed to her for clarification on the incident.