Police Arrest Customs Officers’ impostors

The Nigeria Police has arrested a notorious syndicate that specializes in deceiving unsuspecting businessmen by falsely parading themselves as custom officers.

The spokesman of Katsina State Police Command, SP Gambo Isah, confirmed that the state Special Anti-Robbery Squad led by a police team caught up with the syndicate.

The syndicate was apprehended when a 47-year-old dismissed soldier simply identified as Lawal Abubakar, a resident of Hayin Gada in Dutsinma LGA of the state, in collaboration with five others, reportedly deceived one Mark Udoh of Funtua LGA of the state.

They falsely paraded themselves as officers of the Nigeria Customs Service and offered to sell six hundred (600) bags of auctioned rice to Udoh at the cost of N7.2million in which he paid the sum of N4.5million cash to the fraudsters.

Isah confirmed that the suspects confessed committing the offence and the role played by each member of the syndicate and amount received as loot.