How Nigerian man defrauds girls with faux marriage proposals — Police

The police in Imo State, South-east Nigeria, say they’ve arraigned a 30-year-old “infamous advance-fee fraudster” for allegedly defrauding girls with faux marriage proposals.

The suspect, Knowledge Mmaduka, was arraigned on the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Owerri, and remanded at a police facility within the state, the police mentioned.

The police spokesperson within the state, Henry Okoye, disclosed this throughout a press convention on the police headquarters in Oweri on Friday.

A textual content of the convention was obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, Saturday morning.

How the suspect defrauded girls

Mr Okoye, an assistant superintendent of police, mentioned the suspect was arrested after he allegedly defrauded one of many girls, recognized as Judith, underneath the pretext of marrying her.

Judith had given the suspect the sum of N1 million, (N1,400,000) by way of ATM switch after the suspect promised to marry her, in accordance with the police.

“In the middle of the investigation, the accused revealed that his modus operandi is to go after rich single women promising them marriage and, within the course of, defraud them of their hard-earned cash,” Mr Okoye mentioned.

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“He has a syndicate he makes use of as mother and father and in-laws that he takes these unsuspecting younger women to in his village in Mbaise for affirmation of his intention.

“On seeing these harmless girls will consider he has good intentions; thus, he’ll steal their ATM playing cards, withdraw all the cash of their accounts, and fade into skinny air,” he acknowledged.

“Amazingly, on his arrest, six women he has defrauded surfaced on the (police) station confirming being defrauded by this identical suspect of big sums of cash with the identical promise of marriage.”

The police mentioned one crimson highlander SUV which he allegedly stole from one in all his unsuspecting victims, Rose Mgbe from Cross River State, was recovered from him.

“Extra so, he has a duplex he allegedly constructed at Naze with the cash he bought from his fraud dealings,” Mr Okoye added

Killing

Mr Okoye mentioned the police within the state, in a separate operation, arrested a 72-year-old man for allegedly stabbing his 35-year-old brother to demise in Umuoba, a group in Owerri North Native Authorities Space of the state.

The suspect, Donald Akalonu, was mentioned to have repeatedly stabbed the brother, Achilike, to demise throughout a “minor quarrel” on 1 September.

The police spokesperson mentioned one other member of the household, Donald, reported the incident to the police.

He mentioned the suspect was arrested following “painstaking investigating efforts” of police detectives on the State Prison Intelligence and Investigation Murder Division (SCIID).

“The physique of the deceased has since been evacuated and deposited on the morgue for preservation whereas the suspect can be arraigned in court docket upon completion of the investigation,” he mentioned.

One other Killing

Mr Okoye mentioned, in an analogous growth, police have arrested a 20-year-old man, Chukwuebuka Ogugu, for allegedly taking pictures his 25-year-old pal, Ifeanyichukwu Ogukwe, to demise in Obolo Nzerem, a group in Ehime Mbano Native Authorities Space of the state.

The police spokesperson mentioned the alleged homicide was reported by a relative of the deceased Ekwutosi Ogukwe on 18 August which prompted the arrest of the suspect on the scene of the crime by detectives of the SCIID at about 6:25 p.m. of the identical day.

“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that he killed his pal however acknowledged that it was not intentional, that he was servicing his late father’s single-barrel gun in preparation for standard looking actions that trustworthy night when he unintentionally discharged the gun with the discharged pellets hitting his mentioned pal that visited him on his head and chest, thus bleeding to demise on the spot,” the police mentioned.

“Accordingly, the physique of the deceased has been evacuated and deposited on the morgue whereas the gun has been recovered and registered as exhibit. The suspect can be arraigned in court docket upon completion of the continued investigation by the SCIID,” Mr Okoye added.

Arrest of different crime suspects

The police spokesperson mentioned police, in separate operations, equally arrested 16 different crime suspects for numerous offences within the state.

The offences, in accordance with the police, ranged from armed theft, IPOB/ESN terrorism actions, stealing, receiving stolen properties, illegal possession of firearms and cultism.