The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested a 42-year-old man for allegedly posing as an aide to the Chief of Staff to the President Prof. Ibrahim Gambari to defraud a man of $50,000.
Mohammed Momoh, a Kogi native, was paraded at the DSS headquarters on Tuesday. He allegedly attempted to defraud Benson Aniogu, claiming he represented Gambari and needed the said amount to secure an appointment for him as a special adviser to the president on oil and gas.
DSS spokesman Peter Afunanya said the suspect had approached Aniogu, from Bayelsa State, telling him he was a security aide attached to Gambari.
Momoh had claimed that $25, 000 would be for the chief of staff while the remaining would be for the “boys” who would help secure the appointment.
Afunanya said Momoh had worked briefly some time as an aide to someone in the Presidential Villa between 2013 and 2014 and had some knowledge of the environment.
The DSS spokesman said Aniogu suspected fraud and alerted authorities.
Afunanya urged the public to “be wary and ask questions when and where they need to. For every suspicion of crime please relate to appropriate security agencies and pass information timely to them so they needful can be done.”
Momoh is said to be married with two children.
