The Sokoto state police command has arrested a self-confessed fraudster, Mahmuda Hamza. Hamza, according to reports has been extorting money from people with a police identity card. The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, while parading the suspect with some area boys at the police headquarters in the state on Friday, maintained that war has been declared against area boys and other miscreants in the state by the state’s Commissioner of Police. Nwawe, continued advising parents to talk to their wards to be law-abiding “as it is not going to be business as usual for criminals in the state.” Speaking with Punch, Hamza, explained that got the identity card he used to rob people 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. Photo Credit: Punch.ng
