How dismissed officer duped police of N40m

Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos, have arrested a dismissed police sergeant for allegedly posing as an officer to defraud the Nigeria Police Force of about N40 million in eight years.


 Vanguard gathered that Victor Afamefuna Banor, after his dismissal from the Nigeria Police, forged personnel emolument records, including his last pay certificates and submitted them with fake names, ranks and force numbers to the Nigeria Police pay offices in Lagos, Edo, Cross River, Kaduna, Kogi, Ogun and Akwa Ibom states police commands and allegedly collected N40 million from the purse of the Nigeria Police under false pretence. The police further alleged that the suspect perpetrated the fraud by transferring himself to all the aforementioned police commands with fake documents and promoted himself to the ranks of ASP, DSP and SP any time he received information about promotions in the Nigeria Police. Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of FSARS Lagos, DCP Chris Ezike, had received an intelligence report on the activities of the suspect and directed a team, led by DSP Solomon Igwe, to fish out the suspect. The police prosecutor, Supol Charles Odii, told the court that Banor committed the alleged offence between 2006 and 2014 in seven police commands in Nigeria.