Man, 30, arrested with fake 1m naira notes in Gombe

The police in Gombe have arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly being in possession of fake N1,000 currency notes totaling N1 million. The police commissioner in the state, Mr Shina Olukolu, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Gombe yesterday. “The man, Abbas Abdullahi, was arrested with about N1 million fake currency notes,” Olukolu said.  The […]

The police in Gombe have arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly being in possession of fake N1,000 currency notes totaling N1 million. The police commissioner in the state, Mr Shina Olukolu, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Gombe yesterday.

“The man, Abbas Abdullahi, was arrested with about N1 million fake currency notes,” Olukolu said. 

The suspect, he said, was a spiritualist and that he hailed from Taraba. 

Abdullahi said he obtained the fake naira notes from a friend in Abuja with the intention of using his spiritual powers to change them to genuine ones, but that luck ran out on him. He said he was arrested while trying to buy a cell phone in Gombe.(NAN)