MOSES OMOROGIEWA FROM NEWS DIARY ONLINE
The Criminal Investigation Department, Lagos Command, has arrested 55 year-old Oluwole Akande , for allegedly impersonating the Police Commissioner Railway Command, CP Yetunde Longe, and defrauding an 80-year old man of N250 million.
The Commissioner Railway Command, CP Yetunde Longe, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.
Longe said that she got a call from CP Frank MBA, a former Force spokesperson on the matter.
She said the victim’s wife called Mba to intimate him of alleged plan by one CP Longe to demand for millions of Naira from her husband, so as to drop a petition on her table against him.
“CP Frank Mba replied the wife of the victim that he knows CP Yetunde Longe cannot make such mischievous demand, he promised to call her and verify and get back to the woman.
“CP Frank Mba called me to relate the matter and I confirmed that the information was totally wrong. I said there was no petition of such before me and I don’t even know the victim.