Two syndicates have been detained by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on suspicion of participating in offenses such as criminal conspiracy, cheating, gaining property by deception, and producing and distributing counterfeit US dollars and new naira notes.
Commandant Olusola Odumosu, Director of Public Relations at the teg NSCDC Headquarters in Abuja, stated in a statement on Friday that the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad (CG’s SIS) was responsible for the arrests.
“One of the groups arrested which consisted of four male adults were caught in possession of fake sixty-four thousand, eight hundred US dollars ($64,800) and four hundred and seventy-five thousand naira (N475,000) notes, while fake notes of N1.5m was also seized from the second group consisting of five male adults
“The names of members of the syndicate arrested with the sum of N1.5m are ; Dantala Omale, ‘M’, 30yrs, Plateau State, Musa Abdullahi, ‘M’ 24yrs, Plateau state, Audu Abdulazeez, ‘M’, 56yrs, Gombe State, Umar Hassan ‘M’, 46yrs, plateau state and Mahammadu Badaru Yakubu ‘M’ 30yrs, Nasarawa State
“The arrest was effected when one Dantala Omale was lured to Nasarawa from Plateau state and picked up by the squad on the 22nd of February, 2023, with fake new naira notes of N412,000”, he stated.
He claims that the suspect who was apprehended admitted acquiring the phony notes from Musa Abdullahi (also known as Baballe), which resulted in Abdullahi’s arrest on February 22, 2023, in the Namu neighborhood of Quanpan LGA in Plateau state while in possession of N49,650 in old naira notes.