LONDON: A 26-year-old man Alao Akojiime, was yesterday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for allegedly impersonating a deputy comptroller-general of Customs.
He is facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, fraud and impersonation.
The defendant was said to have presented himself as Peter Akande, a customs chief, on August 12, in order to defraud a job seeker, Samuel Eze.
He was said to have obtained N33,300 from Eze under the pretence of getting him a job with the Nigerian Customs Service.
Prosecuting police Inspector Haruna Ibrahim told Magistrate F.F. George that the defendant also advertises and auctions vehicles as a Customs agent to defraud people.
The defendant, he said, also defrauded others under the guise of obtaining recruitment forms for them into customs.
The defendant pleaded not guilty. He was granted N50,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.
