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Student that uses fake Tinubu's facebook account to defraud people arrested....SEE PHOTO

Firstclass newsline gathered that the police in Lagos have arrested a  19-year-old polytechnic student, Emmauel Eto, for allegedly operating a fakeFacebookaccount of a former Governor of Lagos State and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. First class newsline learnt that Eto was arrested on Saturday, May 9, by operatives of the State Intelligence Bureau of the Lagos State 
Police Command. The police said the suspect was apprehended following a complaint made 
by one Idowu Adeyemi that an unknown person, impersonating as Tinubu, created aFaceboookaccount in same name, and swindled some job seekers.  First-class newsline gathered that Eto allegedly told members of the public, through the fakeFacebookaccount, that there were available employment opportunities in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and other 

government agencies. He also allegedly requested that interested applicants should pay the 
sum of N26,850, which was employment and processing charges. The police said the items recovered from the suspect were six SIM cards, 13 empty SIM card packs, six photographs of a white man, and 
one I-pad. Speaking with firstclass newsline crew on Wednesday, Eto, who hails from Oleh in the Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, said it was another student in the polytechnic who 

trained him. He said, "I am studying Mechanical Engineering at the polytechnic. I am in my second year. This whole thing started in January 2015. It was a colleague, Kelvin, who gave me the idea. I don't know Tinubu and have not met him. My friend gave me the idea, and it actually worked because three job seekers paid money into my bank account. "I also have phone numbers from the United Kingdom and the United States of America which I used to communicate with victims. It is just 
three persons I have duped so far." The Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, said the command would  not fail to bring all criminally minded persons to justice. He said, "The command will not rest on its oars to ensure that any crime committed is punished and the offenders apprehended. The 
suspect, who posed as a prominent Nigerian on theFacebookand other 
social media platforms, has confessed to the crime and investigation 
is ongoing."  
Culled from
Firstclassnewsline.net


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