Six Nigerians Arrested For Posing As Officials Of Flagstaff House In Ghana [Photos]

Six Nigerians have been arrested for allegedly
forging letterheads of the Office of the
President and other state institutions to
defraud people.
They are Paul Kelvin, 20; Wallace Darden
Odon, 28; Osamidiamwen Ikecheku Emeka,
24; Prince Ejime, 19; Charles Chinedu, 32, and
Adebayoo Alaba Saheed, 21.

They have since been charged with forging
documents and signatures and posing as state
officials, and because they gave false names
to the police during interrogation, they have
also been charged with deceit of public
officers.

Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Accra Regional
Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent of Police
Mr Paul Kontomah, said the suspects were
arrested in a house at Ayensu Estate, near
Adenta in Accra, on June 9, 2014.
Among the letters retrieved from the suspects
was one directing a former Inspector-General
of Police (IGP) to take his compulsory leave
for Mr Mohammed Alhassan, the current IGP,
to take over the position.
There were also certificates signed by the
Minister of the Interior, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, to
prove the origins of some American citizens,
as well as High Court disclaimer forms.

Mr Kontomah said the police, acting on
intelligence that the young men were involved
in criminal activities, swooped on them in the
early hours of June 9 “and we found them
busy browsing the Internet in their room with
laptops”.

He said prior to the arrest of the suspects,
residents of the area had filed complaints with
the police that a group of young men in the
house had been harassing them in the night.

On the day of the arrest, the police retrieved
eight laptops and a search on them led to the
retrieval of a number of forged documents
from state institutions, including forged ones
from the Office of the President, the High
Court, the Ghana Police Service, the Value
Added Tax division of the Ghana Revenue
Authority, among other institutions.

He said the suspects used the documents to
facilitate illegal electronic transaction and lure
people to part with money.

It was also found
that the men posed as military officers of the
United States of America in war zones to
defraud people.

In addition to the eight laptops retrieved from
the suspects, a quantity of dried substances
believed to be Indian hemp was also found on
them.