New naira Two arrested for transacting fake notes in Enugu
The Enugu State Police Command arrested two suspects, Joseph Chinenye, 39, and Onyeka Kenneth Ezeja, 29, allegedly for enjoying, transacting and dealing fake notes of the recently redesigned naira.
A statement issued on Friday by the command’s prophet, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, said the suspects, who live at Iheakpu- Awka in Igbo- Eze South and Onicha Enugu- Ezike in Igbo- Eze North original government areas of the state, were caught with 180 pieces of the recently redesigned N,000 notes which are fake.
Ndukwe revealed that primary disquisition showed that the notes, which were in three separate batches, “ bear the same periodical figures of A/ 34282656, A/ 46578759 and 8/ 93852942, ” while the suspects claimed to have secured the fake notes from an unidentified woman in Benin, Edo State.
“ In addition, they confessed to trying to vend the notes to a POS driver, who rejected them, ahead( police) operatives arrested them at a stuffing station in Ibagwa- Aka community of Igbo- Eze LGA, where they used the notes to buy petrol, ” he stated.
The Police Public Relations Officer affirmed that the suspects would be arraigned in court formerly disquisition is concluded by the state CID.
The statement comforted the public of the commitment of the Police to grope out felonious rudiments negotiating similar acts of profitable sabotage and insure that they’re brought to bespeak.
