Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
A suspected fake policeman is currently in the police dragnet for allegedly attempting to secure the bail of two suspected criminals in Lagos.
The fake officer is being held at Zone 2, Police Command, Onikan, Lagos.
According to the police, the fake policeman had arrived the command to seek the bail of two suspected international fraudsters in police custody.
The suspected fraudsters were earlier arrested at the Lekki area of the state after they were found to be with forged certificates of a university in Ghana.
They were also alleged to be deeply involved in Internet scam in many foreign countries and have succeeded in acquiring stupendous wealth from their loot.
Police sources said that after they were arrested and detained based on their confessional statement and attempted to bribe detectives with huge sum of money, the middle-aged man walked into the anti corruption unit of Zone 2 with a lawyer and identified himself as a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) serving in Edo State.
He reportedly went further to seek the bail of the two suspects, promising to produce them any time they are wanted.
It was learnt that when he was told to produce his identity card as a police officer, he presented a police warrant card but on a closer scrutiny, it was discovered that in the warrant card, his picture with beards showed that he was hanging the rank of an Assistant Superintendent of Police(ASP), with the name, Sunday Udoka, while his rank was boldly written as Deputy Superintendent of Police.