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Fake army general, who claimed Pres. Buhari nominated him as COAS, arrested over N270 million fraud – –
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Operatives of the Lagos State Zonal Command of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) have arrested one Bolarinwa Oluwasegun, a pretend Military Common, for an alleged N270 million fraud.
The suspect is reported to have posed as a Common within the Nigerian Military. He allegedly made false representations to a complainant, Kodef Clearing Sources, that President Muhammadu Buhari had shortlisted him and one different to be appointed because the Chief of Military Employees (COAS) and that he wanted a brief grant “to press and course of the appointment.”
He reportedly cast a letter of appointment as COAS purportedly signed by the President and confirmed the identical to the sufferer to additional show his declare. Within the stated letter, he claimed that he wanted to pay a sure sum of money into the coffers of the Federal Authorities of Nigeria, as a part of the necessities for the appointment as COAS.
EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, in an announcement on Thursday, January 13, stated the suspect in his bid to defr#ud the sufferer, additionally allegedly cast a number of paperwork and the signature of the President.
“He was arrested at his home within the Alagbado space of Lagos State on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. Upon his arrest, six pump motion g#ns, three cartridge b#llets, a swagger stick and several other cast paperwork have been recovered from Oluwasegun, have been recovered,” Uwujaren stated.
