Police Operatives serving within the Ogui Police Division of Enugu State Command have apprehended a suspected fraudster recognized as Nnamani Joseph ‘m’, aged 45, who allegedly deliberate to defraud a businessman of eighteen (18) luggage of rice valued at about 4 hundred thousand Naira (N400,000.00), underneath the guise of shopping for and utilizing the rice for charity at a church.

An announcement launched by the spokesperson of the command, SP Daniel Ndukwe, says on February 14, 2024, being Valentine’s Day, Nnamani went to the premises of a church (title withheld) in Ogui, Enugu, from the place he known as the businessman (names withheld) on the telephone, requesting eighteen (18) items of 25 kg luggage of rice valued with the pretense of wanting to make use of the identical for charity to the church.

‘’The businessman accordingly provided the rice and unsuspectingly adopted Nnamani to the financial institution to obtain his cost via financial institution switch. However in the middle of effecting the cost, Nnamani secretly left the financial institution, went again to the church, and made away with the luggage of rice to an unknown vacation spot.”

Ndukwe stated that the suspect, nevertheless, couldn’t run or cover for thus lengthy, because the Police Operatives, upon receiving the report, launched into an intelligence-driven investigation, which led to his arrest on February 20, 2024, at Enene, Enugu. Eight (8) out of the eighteen (18) 25 kg luggage of rice have been recovered from him, after he had re-bagged and offered the opposite luggage at Oye Enene Market, Enugu.

Ndukwe added that the suspect and his cohorts can have a date with the court docket of regulation as soon as investigations are concluded.