A 37 year old man, Abubakar Suleiman has been nabbed with 88
bundles of $100 dollars fake currency by the Niger state Police Command.
Parading the suspect yesterday in Minna, the Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO), Abigail Unaeze said that he was arrested when
he took the money to one Engineer Abdullahi Sambo of Shango area in
Minna.
According to The Nation, the suspect was reported to the Chanchaga
police division by one of the relatives of Sambo, Mamman Manya who
suspected some shady deal with Abubakar showed the money to Sambo who is
sick.
Speaking with the suspect who was a foreman with Salihu
construction company in Kaduna, he confessed that he was in possession
of the fake dollar notes but he was given the money to deliver to
Engineer Sambo and he do not know the real owner of the money.
According to him, he said that an intermediary called Khalifa gave him the money while referring to the owners of the money as ‘genies’.
“I am on errand. The whole thing is just like a mystery. I was
called by some unknown persons to contact Kahlifa who will give me
something to take to Engineer Sambo in Minna. The people promised to
help me financially. When I got to Minna, I went to Sambo’s house, on
getting there, his relatives called the police that i brought take notes
for their father.”
When asked what the money was meant for, Abubakar said, “I do
not know what the money is meant for. I was only told it was meant for
Engineer Sambo. I am on errand and it was not my business to know if the
notes are fake it the amount in the box. I was doing what I was sent.”
He said that all efforts to call the Khalifa prooved abortive as he no longer picks his calls.
Meanwhile, the Police said that Abubakar is part of a syndicate who
specialises in the circulation of fake currency notes adding that the
police is on the trail of the other members of the syndicate.
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