Army arrest 2 over extortion for recruitment

The Deport Nigerian Army, Zaria weekend paraded two fraudsters that were defrauding unsuspecting members of the public under the guise of getting them enlisted into the Army’s recruits training programme. Parading the suspect at the Chindit Cantonment, the Acting Army Public Relations Officer, Lieutenant Adekunle Adeyemi, said good Samaritans and victims alerted the Army of […]

The Deport Nigerian Army, Zaria weekend paraded two fraudsters that were defrauding unsuspecting members of the public under the guise of getting them enlisted into the Army’s recruits training programme.

Parading the suspect at the Chindit Cantonment, the Acting Army Public Relations Officer, Lieutenant Adekunle Adeyemi, said good Samaritans and victims alerted the Army of the activities of the suspects.

He said; “they use the social media and proxies to lure their victims to pay them money as inducement on the promise of assisting to get them recruited into the Nigerian Army. The suspects were arrested on July 29.

“The arrested suspects attested in their confessional statements to have so far defrauded no fewer than eight potential recruits to the tune of N1.3 million, which was shared among them and two other persons who are presently at large. Only N163,000 was recovered from the suspects. Recruitment into the Nigerian Army is free and only possible through a transparent and rigorous process, which starts from completion of online registration form and subsequent screening processes.”

Adeyemi urged the general public to be wary of fraudsters, as the Army would not demand for bribe before enlisting potentials recruits into the institution.

One of the suspects, who said he was residing in Rigasa, Kaduna, said they came to Zaria mainly to defraud the “desperate” potential recruits.