Army arrests serving soldier over alleged N114m fraud

The Nigerian Army has arrested a serving soldier, Staff Sgt. Amoke Simon, implicit alleged large-scale fraud amounting N114 cardinal and mendacious claims relating to the sidesplitting of notorious kidnap kingpin, Obioma Nwankwo, popularly known arsenic Osisikankwu.

A counter-insurgency and information adept successful the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, made this known successful a station via X connected Monday.

Makama stated that the suspect, a subordinate of the Nigerian Army Engineers Corps attached to a regiment successful Lagos, was apprehended astatine the Port Harcourt International Airport portion attempting to fly to Abuja.

The root added that the worker was arrested by associated troops of 14 Brigade and 6 Division Provost Groups pursuing ongoing investigations into aggregate allegations of fraud and impersonation.

It added that preliminary investigations revealed that the worker allegedly defrauded the Abia State Government by falsely presenting himself arsenic a cardinal fig successful the 2010 cognition that led to the elimination of the notorious kingpin.

According to the source, the mendacious communicative reportedly earned him authoritative designation an...