The men of the Lagos State Police Command during a routine patrol exercise nabbed a young Hausa man fronting as a mobile police officer and mounting a road block to extort money from unsuspecting commuters.
The impostor, Husseni Elisha
31 year old man, Husseni Elisha has been arrested and charged before a Magistrate ’s court sitting in Ejigbo for allegedly impersonating mobile police officer and mounting a road block to extort money from motorists in Lagos State, P.M News reports.
He confessed that he did so to raise money to pay the medical bill of his wife who recently delivered a baby boy. The Adamawa state -born Elisha was arrested at Mosalasi bus stop, Egbeda area where he mounted the road block causing traffic gridlock and forcefully extorting money from motorists and motorcycle operators .
While he was carrying the illegal extortion, a patrol team from Area M Idimu command apprehended him and asked to know why he was doing so. He introduced himself as a mobile policeman and presented a police identity card which was later discovered to be fake. On preliminary investigation , the team discovered that he was not a police man and subsequently arrested and took him to the command.
He confessed that he was not a police man, saying he made his papers in WAEC exam with credits and applied to join the airforce and police but did not make the cut.
He said he decided to come to Lagos six years ago to set up a business but again was unable to do that due to lack of funds. He said he decided to impersonate and was using it to extort from motorists before he was arrested.
On the day he was arrested , Elisha said what prompted him to embark on serious extortion was that his wife delivered and there was no money to pay her medical bill and feeding.
His case is yet to be concluded in court.