The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Lagos State Command, says it has arrested four suspects, for alleged economic sabotage and heinous crimes in the state.
The State Commandant of the corps, Mr. Adedoyin Keshinro, disclosed this, on Monady in Lagos, while briefing news men.
Keshinro said that the arrest of the suspects was among other things, aimed at exposing crimes and criminality in the society.
He explained that one of the suspects, a 29-year old from Osun, was involved, in the deliberate vandalisation of a DAF truck, which he was originally employed to drive.
According to him, the suspect was arrested by the patrol team of the command, around the Guinness axis of Ikeja, on Monday, Jan. 27, at about 0900hrs.
โHe was arrested alongside two others; a scrap dealer, aged, 28 years from Kano State and a vulcanizer aged 48 years, from Osun, for vandalizing and dismembering the truck he was employed to drive.
โHe was found to have sold the parts as scraps to his potential buyers.
โSimilarly, another suspect, a male, aged, 28 years, from Adamawa, who have mastered the act of using fake payment receipts for online purchases, in a bid to scam and bring hardship upon unsuspecting victims and general members of the public was arrested.
โUpon receiving the first complaints, from two direct victims of the above online scams, by the suspect and his group, the command immediately deployed operatives, who later got him apprehended.
โHowever, some other members of the group are presently at large, but they are still being trailed by the command. โThe commandant disclosed that investigation had revealed that the online scammer and his group, often used, fake alerts to defraud business owners, intimidate and impersonate with army camouflage uniforms and berets. (Guardian)