Police in Kaduna have arrested a man who has allegedly been impersonating the governor, Nasir El-Rufai, to defraud the public.
Kaduna police commissioner, Ahmad Abdurahman, who paraded the suspect on Friday at the command headquarters, said the suspect, Mohammed Jamilu, had been meeting with clergymen in the state, using the governor’s name to instil fears in them.
“Mohammed Jamilu is a 30-year-old who specialises in defamation of character, he chose his victims to be those that are highly placed individuals in the society, including the clergy.
“He would speak to them, try to convince them that he was hired by the state governor to eliminate them and through that, he would incite disturbance and also extort money from them,” Mr Abdurahman said.
The police commissioner also said that 34 other suspects had been arrested for different crimes in the state and that 16 suspected kidnappers were arrested by troops of Operation Puff Adder.
The CP explained that several arms, ammunition and other dangerous weapons including “three AK47 Rifles with 27 rounds of live Ammunitions, one locally made pistol, one Dane Gun, a pair of army Camouflage uniform” were recovered.
