A 24-year-old suspected fake medical doctor, Clement Joseph, has been arrested by the Niger State Police Command for allegedly impregnating four females in the state.
The suspect, with the aid of a tip-off to the police, was arrested on Saturday, 6th of November, 2022.
Disclosing this, the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, in a statement in Minna, said the suspect was arrested for three offences including false impersonation, fraud and causing abortion.
The suspect was also accused of deceitfully collecting money from an unsuspecting member of the public to the tune of N280,000 under the false pretence of a fake online business called ZUGA COINS INT’L business, apart from being an impersonator.
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He said, “the suspect was arrested for false personation having paraded himself as a medical doctor and deceitfully collected a sum amount of money from an unsuspecting member of the public to the tune of two hundred and eighty thousand naira under the false pretence of a fake online business called ZUGA COINS INT’L business.”
Abiodun explained that upon further questioning, the suspect confessed to have had unlawful carnal knowledge of four other female victims and impregnated one of them.
According to him, “the suspect conspired with one Aliyu presently at large and aborted a pregnancy of one other victim”.
The case is currently under investigation.