Six Nigerians have been arrested for
allegedly forging letterheads of the Office of the President of Ghana, John
Mahama and other state institutions to defraud people, this SHOWBIZPLUSng can
authoritatively report.
They are Paul Kelvin, 20; Wallace
Darden Odon, 28; Osamidiamwen Ikecheku Emeka, 24; Prince Ejime, 19; Charles
Chinedu, 32, and Adebayoo Alaba Saheed, 21. They are all unemployed.
They have since been charged with
forging documents and signatures and posing as state officials, and because
they gave false names to the police during interrogation, they have also been
charged with deceit of public officers.
Ghana’s Daily Graphic, quoting the
Accra Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent of Police Mr Paul Kontomah,
reports that the suspects were arrested in a house at Ayensu Estate, near Adenta
in Accra, on 9 June, 2014. Among the letters retrieved from the suspects was
one directing a former Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to take his compulsory
leave for Mr Mohammed Alhassan, the current IGP, to take over the position.
There were also certificates signed
by the Minister of the Interior, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, to prove the origins of some
American citizens, as well as High Court disclaimer forms.
Mr Kontomah said the police, acting
on intelligence that the young men were involved in criminal activities,
swooped on them in the early hours of 9 June, “and we found them busy browsing
the Internet in their room with laptops.”
He said prior to the arrest of the
suspects, residents of the area had filed complaints with the police that a
group of young men in the house had been harassing them in the night.
On the day of the arrest, the police
retrieved eight laptops and a search on them led to the retrieval of a number
of forged documents from state institutions, including forged ones from the
Office of the President, the High Court, the Ghana Police Service, the Value
Added Tax division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, among other institutions.
He said the suspects used the
documents to facilitate illegal electronic transaction and lure people to part
with money.
It was also found that the men posed
as military officers of the United States of America in war zones to defraud
people.
In addition to the eight laptops
retrieved from the suspects, a quantity of dried substances believed to be
Indian hemp was also found on them.
One of the letters on the letterhead
of the Office of the President and purportedly signed by Dr Raymond A. Atuguba,
the Executive Secretary to the President, read: “His Excellency the President
has given approval for Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, the Inspector-General of Police,
to commence his compulsory 90-day terminal leave from February 5-4 May 2013.
“He has further directed that Mr
Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, is to act as
Inspector-General of Police until further notice. “On behalf of the people of
Ghana, His Excellency the President wishes to thank Mr Quaye for the invaluable
services he rendered to the state during his career and especially his tenure
of office as Inspector-General of Police.”
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