Two brothers, Sunday Durosinmi Onikoyi , 29 and Felix Durosinmi
Onikoyi, 20, both of No 30 Akala Street, Idi-Oro Mushin, Lagos, have been
arrested for defrauding unsuspecting members of the public with fake currency.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State
Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who announced the arrest of the brothers, disclosed
that they were arrested on Thursday, following a distress call by one Moses
Nwese of Gas Line area of Ijoko Ota, that two men came to his shop to buy two
bags of rice and gave him the sum of N29,000 in N 1,000 denomination . Nwese
was said to have noticed that they left his shop hurriedly and while counting
the money, he discovered that all the N 1,000 were fake.
“Upon the information, the DPO Sango Ota Division, CSP
Godwin Idehai who was on routine patrol of the area with his men, hotly chased
the suspects and got them arrested in a Honda Odyssey with registration number
LSR 504 AZ.
On searching them, N 78,000 in fake N 1,000 denomination
were recovered from them. Also recovered from them are one unregistered Bajaj
motorcycle and 10 bags of rice”, Oyeyemi stated.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama has ordered a
full scale investigation into the activities of the two suspects and that they
should be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction as soon as
investigation is concluded.
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