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.
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