A notorious fraudster who has been extorting money from unsuspecting public with a police identity card, has finally been apprehended by the police.
Mahmuda Hamza
While speaking in an interview with a correspondent during his parade at the police headquarters in Sokoto state on Friday, a self-confessed fraudster, Mahmuda Hamza, who has been extorting money from people with a police identity card, made some confessions.
According to PUNCH Metro, the criminal who was arrested by the police in the state, explained that he took the identity card from a deceased policeman and attached his passport photograph to it.
“I am a fraudster and I know I have committed an offence but I am pleading, I will not go into crime again if I am pardoned. I am not an armed robber, but a fraudster. I have two wives and seven children and I feed them all from the money I make through this fraud,” he explained.
Parading the suspect with some area boys, the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, maintained that the Commissioner of Police in the state has declared war against area boys and other miscreants.
The PPRO also advised parents to talk to their wards to be law-abiding “as it is not going to be business as usual for criminals in the state.”