22 two-year-old man identified as Ukpabi Kenneth is currently in the custody of the
Abia State Police Command for claiming to be a colonel in the Nigerian Army.
Ukpabi Kenneth, a 22 two-year-old man, is currently in the custody of
the Abia State Police Command for claiming to be a colonel in the
Nigerian Army.
According to Punch Metro, a Police source said Kenneth was arrested
by the men of the Nigerian Army at the Isi-Court axis of Umuahia, the
State Capital in an attempt to rob an unidentified man of his
motorcycle.
It was gathered that the suspect had presented a fake identity card
of an Army colonel which he had been using to intimidate unsuspecting
members of the Public.
The source added that seven passport photographs of the suspect on a
military camouflage, one Access bank ATM card belonging to one Eno Nto
and one fake military identity card was found on the suspect at the
point of arrest.
Confessing to the crime, the suspect who claimed to be a final year
student of civil engineering, in Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, said he
forged the identity card in order to recover the motorcycle that was
collected from him at gunpoint.
He claimed that he identified the motorcycle a few days after it was taken away from him by gunmen at Isi- Court in Umuahia.
He said,
“I am not an army colonel, my identity card was
photoshopped. The person you saw on the I.D card is one of my facebook
friends who is a soldier. I downloaded his picture from his facebook
account.
“I forged the identity card because my motorcycle was stolen from
me by gunmen at Isi- Court sometime this year when I was coming back
from Aba.
“The incident happened at night when I saw some people flashing
light on me, I thought they were Police because they were on black, so I
parked and they showed me a gun, attacked me and collected my
motorcycle from me. That made me angry and I went back to the Army
checkpoint at Ubakala and reported the incident, but they referred me to
the police.
“So when I went to a Police station in Umuahia and reported the
case, they asked me to bring N20, 000 for fuel to enable them arrest the
criminals, I told them that I have only N4000, but they did not agree
to go with me.
“I didn’t do it to kill or intimidate people, it was only for the
purpose of recovering my bike, I’m not aware the Identity card will
land me into trouble, I’m pleading for forgiveness.”
The Commissioner of Police in the State Mr. Anthony Ogbizi has
confirmed the Case. He said the suspect would be charged to Court for
prosecution
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