20-year old boy, Sarduna Onum pictured wearing the red and grey shirt,
has been arrested by police officers attached to the Onikan Police
station in Lagos state for allegedly giving false information to the
police that armed men attacked and robbed him of money and handsets.
According to
PM News,
the suspect had succeeded in this criminal act for about three years
and in different states including Bayelsa, Rivers, Ogun and other
states.
His MO is to deceive the police with false information that he was
robbed by a particular person and the police in turn will arrest the
accused person and force them to return the items allegedly stolen from
Sarduna. Luck however ran out on him when on March 8th, he went to the
Onikan police Division, Ikoyi Lagos to lodge a complaint that some men
robbed him of the sum of N100,000 and a Tecno handset at Ikoyi area of
Lagos.
While he was narrating his alleged false story to the police officers at
the station, a newly transferred female police officer who in August
last year investigated a similar case the boy reported at a police
station in Bayelsa, raised an alarm and said the boy was a fraud, saying
she had investigated a similar case for the boy in Bayelsa State and
discovered that he was a liar.
When interrogated, Sarduna allegedly confessed that he feeds on giving
false information to the police. He said he makes up stories of how he
was attacked by robbers.
“I started visiting Police Stations to give false information that some
men robbed me of money and handsets which was not true due to hardship I
suffered after my father died few years ago. And I have given false
information of robbery attack on me to the police in Bayelsa ,Rivers,
Ogun and Lagos states and the Police always believe me because to my age
and innocent look. And when they lead me to the crime scene, I will
point at innocent people as the suspects, and the police will arrest
them and take them to the station unknown to them that I fabricated the
allegations just to get money to survive. And at the station, I will
threaten the police to charge the suspects to court or I write a
petition against them, and with the threat, all the arrested suspects
will find a way to refund what I claimed they stole from me. And the
police have not been able to detect that I was lying until the female
officer who investigated a similar case for me in Bayelsa State last
year exposed me when she saw me narrating the same robbery story to the
police at Onikan Division, Ikoyi, Lagos. I believe Almighty God wants me
to repent that is why he sent the police officer who investigated a
similar case I reported at a police station in Bayelsa State last year
to Lagos to expose me. I am appealing to the Nigerian Police to forgive
me for deceiving them to arrest innocent people for me to extort money
from them”.
After the police finished the interrogation, Sarduna who does not have a
fixed address, was arraigned before an Igbosere magistrates’ court on a
two-count charge of felony to wit and giving false information to the
police to defraud members of the public. He pleaded not guilty to the
alleged crime. He was admitted on a N50,000 bail with two sureties in
like sum.
He is being remanded at the Ikoyi prison until the next hearing of his case which comes up on April 25th.
Title : Photo: 20 year old man arrested for giving false information to the police
Description : 20-year old boy, Sarduna Onum pictured wearing the red and grey shirt, has been arrested by police officers attached to the Onikan Police...
