Police arrest suspect for impersonating Bishop Kukah
The FCT Police Command said it had captured a suspect, Jehu Kwasu, 25, for purportedly mimicking the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, His Lordship Matthew Kukah, to cheat individuals from people in general.
Introducing the charged to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr Muhammad Mustafa, said the suspect was captured on Aug. 15 in Kaduna by faculty of the charge.
He said that Kukah had grumbled to the order on the exercises of the suspect.
"We got a grumbling from Kukah through our unit that is examining the matter which captured the suspect,"he said.
He said that the Bishop had been educated of the capture of the suspect who was a frequent criminal, including that he was presently remand.
The magistrate said that the order would proceed with the examination steadily to guarantee the arraignment of the suspect.
He informed individuals with respect to the general population to be aware and of report any criminal exercises to the security agents.
"Any trick that you think ought to be accounted for to the police, whether on your messages, phone calls and SMS,"he said.
The suspect who admitted to the wrongdoing, said that he opened a record at the GTB for the sake of Kukah and requested for cash from the general population to help IDPs.
"My name is Jehu Kwasu, I mimicked Bishop Matthew Kukah, I gathered a significant tremendous measure of cash from individuals in his name.
"When I opened the record in GTB, I called individuals on telephone for backing for IDPs to station the cash to them however rather I diverted the cash to myself,"he said.
He said that he was captured by the police when he went to the bank to make withdrawal from the record which the casualties paid cash into.
Kwasu said that he for the most part called his casualties through their telephone numbers which he got from the Internet and genuine guest application.
He said that he chose to utilize the name of the Bishop to swindle individuals from people in general as a result of his identity in the nation.
The suspect who had cheated conspicuous Nigerians of a huge number of Naira, said that his endeavor to dupe previous Senate President, David Mark fizzled.
The political science graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, said that he took to the wrongdoing in view of the hardships in the nation.
NAN reports that the associate, a child with an Anglican Bishop, late James Kwasu, had before this captured been additionally captured for imitating Bishop Stephen Akobe of the Kabba Anglican Diocese.
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