…Police nab suspect who specializes in sending fake bank alert
By Hassan Zaggi
A 24-year-old suspect, Abdukareem Ka, has been arrested and paraded alongside 35 other suspects for kidnapping a 9-year-old pupil at a school gate in Karu New Nyanya, a suburb in Nasarawa State.
The suspect kidnapped the 9-year old under the pretense that he was sent by the mother of the boy to pick him and teach him computer.
The suspects were arrested through the joint efforts of the men of the Force Intelligence Bureau and the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) from their various hideouts in some states.
The Force Spokesman, Frank Mba, paraded the suspects in Abuja, Tuesday.
According to Mba: “The suspect successfully took the boy out of the school and effectively held him hostage. The young boy was held in captivity until his parents were able to pay a ransom of 1.5 million naira before he was released.”
Mba said that when the case was reported, IRT officers tracked the suspect who hails from Plateau state and eventually arrested him with the ransom money recovered and the boy reunited with his family.
While warning owners of schools to be vigilant on the people that pick children from their schools, he said: “Next time this kind of incident happened in schools, we will not just end in arresting the suspects but we will also go after the proprietors of the schools and prosecute them under the appropriate rules of the law.
Speaking, the suspect said: “I was arrested for abducting a nine year old boy from the school telling him that I will teach him how to use the computer. After then, I took him from the school and I demanded for 1.5 million naira which is here in my hand.
“I had the boy for only one week, I know this boy, he resides beside our street.”
Speaking on the fake medical doctor who specializes in sending fake bank credit alerts, CP Mba said the suspect-Rakiya specializes in duping business owners by sending fake Keystone bank alert to business owners to collect products.
“Operating under this pretense, Rakiya goes from states to states, hotels to hotels, from business premises duping people obtaining goods under false pretense and making payments with fake bank alerts.
“She has so perfected her act by developing and building confidence with people. She had a history of having committed this crime in Kwara and Plateau states and now Abuja.
“Investigations show that in Kwara, she obtained gold under same pretense, which took her to prison, briefly came out and continued the same business.”
CP Mba, therefore, called on business owners to ensure confirmation of bank alert before parting with their goods, especially to customers unknown to them.
Mba also called on victims of her crime to contact detectives to consolidate the entire case for appropriate prosecutions.
Responding to questions from newsmen, Rakiya, said: “I go to shops, collect goods and make fake bank alert to them and walk away. Some give me the products and some don’t if they have not see
the alert.
“I have been doing this for a year and six months now, I was arrested in Kwara October last year where I was given gold and jarabiya to sell and return the money back to them, I sold and never returned the money back to them same in Plateau.”
