A suspect in the Department of State Service (DSS) custody has told the operatives that he impersonated Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to enable him pay his tuition fee and complete his degree course in Business Administration.
The suspect identified as Amos Ehis Asuelimen, a 30-year-old Business Administration in Edo state-owned Ambrose Alli University was paraded alongside other suspect by the DSS in Benin City, the State capital.
The Deputy Director (Security Enforcement) of DSS, Galadima Byange said Asuelimen, created a fictitious Facebook account in the name of the Vice President to scam unsuspecting victims.
Byange said the undergraduate, 30, lured unsuspecting victims “to send money and recharge cards to process their registration and subsequent eligibility for a loan of N100, 000 each.”
The operative warned “youths who engaged or contemplating to engage in fraudulent acts that there is no short cut to wealth”.
Bayange admonished youths to engage themselves on “decent productive venture or risk being guest of law enforcement agencies.”
The suspect who admitted to defrauding not less than five persons said: “I am not Osinbajo. I am student of Ambrose Alli university, Ekpoma, from the department of Business Administration.
“I am a final year student. I should have been a graduate by now but I am having an issue, that is project inconclusive.
“My parents are not aware and nobody is aware that I’m doing fraud. Am into fraud because I was thinking I can get money to pay my fees and complete my degree course in Business Administration,” he said.
Also, a teenager, Godwin Ogashi, who claimed to be a fashion designer was arrested for allegedly impersonating Mrs. Aisha Buhari on an Instagram account with which he defrauded his victims.
The suspect said he created the Instagram account in May 2019, with a message that the First Lady was empowering Nigerian youths with cash to start up their businesses.
He said he thereafter requested interested persons to register with money in order to access the empowerment.
“This is my first time of doing it. I was a fashion designer, but there was no money for me to start up my own shop,” the suspect said.
