A middle-aged man named Celestine Nwoha has been paraded by the operatives of the Western Security Network, code named Amotekun Corps, Ekiti state command, for allegedly being in his possession bundles of fake new naira notes.
The suspect, according to the security outfit, hails from Ihiala in Ihiala local government area of Anambra state.
He was said to have been apprehended at Omuo-Ekiti in Ekiti East local government area of Ekiti state by the men of the corps after spending large quantities of the new one thousand naira notes in a local market in the area.
The suspect who claimed to be a business man from Lagos state said on the fateful day, he was from Lagos state and heading to Isanlu in Kogi state to buy kola nut and bitter cola and was arrested with the fake new naira notes.
Describing himself as victim of circumstances, the suspect said he collected the fake new naira notes from a customer in Lagos state without knowing that it was counterfeit money.
Parading the suspect at the office of the corps, located along Old Iyin road, Ado-Ekiti, the Commandant of the Corps, Brigadier Joe Komolafe (rtd), said the operatives of the corps was alerted by the Point of Sale (POS) operators in the area shortly after they discovered the fake new naira notes in the area.
Komolafe stated that shortly after receiving the information, operatives of the corps swung into action and arrested the suspect with large quantities of the fake new naira notes.
He said the corps was reliably informed that the suspect came into the community with about N250,000 fake one thousand new naira notes.
Komolafe said the suspect who is currently undergoing interrogations at the office of the corps, will be handed over to the police for prosecution as soon as investigations is completed.
He warned members of the public to beware of the activities of those he called unscrupulous persons who might want to use the opportunity of the scarcity of cash in the country to dupe members of the public with fake new naira notes.
