The Sokoto state police command has arrested a certain Mahmuda Hamza, for extorting money from people with a police identity card.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, parading the suspect with some area boys at the police headquarters in the state on Friday ,maintained that the Commissioner of Police in the state has declared war against area boys and other miscreants.
Speaking with newsmen, Hamza, explained that he took the identity card from a deceased policeman and attached his passport photograph to it.
“I am a fraudster and I know I have committed an offence but I am pleading, I will not go into crime again if I am pardoned. I am not an armed robber, but a fraudster. I have two wives and seven children and I feed them all from the money I make through this fraud,” he explained.