An unscrupulous man has taken advantage of the Lassa fever scare in Nigeria to scam unsuspecting people by selling a fake substance as insecticides.
The packaged 'insecticide'
The incident that led to the arrest of a suspected scammer who sold salt to members of staff in a school as an insecticide that drives away rats and other harmful animals has been nabbed in the course of the illicit trade.
Read the story as narrated by a corper who was an eyewitness:
"I'm a Corper and am serving at a government secondary school in Kaduna. Today a man came to our school to sell some stuff, according to him it's an insecticide that kills cockroach, insects, scorpions, scares snakes away and most of all Lassa fever. He went into the staff room and many teachers bought the stuff. Unknown to them the content was just ordinary salt...
"After making about #18,000 from the sales and when he was about leaving, one of the teachers decided to open her own, Lo and behold it was ordinary salt that was packaged with no name of the product, address or phone number. So the teacher went to d corridor and called him to come and collect the stuff back and return her money that she is no longer interested.
"Immediately the young man started running towards the school gate and the teacher started shouting "thief thief thief" with the help of some copers sitting outside, the guy was apprehended.
"And I believe he was handed over to the relevant authorities"
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