I extort money from bus drivers to escape hunger - Fake policeman

Hearing will continue at the Ikeja chief magistrate court, Lagos, on November 15, 2018 in a case of impersonation against a 43-year-old man, Joseph Ifeanyi.

The police had arraigned the accused in court on a count charge of impersonation.

At the last hearing of the case last Thursday, Ifeanyi admitted he was fraudulently kitting himself in police uniform to extort money from commercial bus drivers at Oshodi in order to escape hunger.

He pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, adding that it was his resolve to free himself and his family from starvation that forced him to action.

He, however, did not disclose how much he was making daily from the trick or how he came about the police uniform.

The prosecutor, Mr Benson Emuerhi, alleged that Ifeanyi acquired a police uniform with the intent to defraud unsuspecting members of the take such a criminal public.

Emuerhi said that men of the Federal Special AntiRobbery Squad arrested Ifeanyi at Cappa Junction, along the Oshodi area of Lagos, while wearing a police uniform and extorting money from commercial bus drivers.

During interrogation, the prosecutor said, the accused admitted that he brought the police uniform found on him.

The prosecutor did not oppose bail for Ifeanyi but asked the court for a short adjournment for trial.

The presiding magistrate, Mrs O. Sule-Amzat, granted him bail in the sum of N50,000, with one surety in like sum.

He was remanded in prison custody pending when he will perfect his bail conditions.