Security guard docked for impersonating Army colonel
A 45-year-old security guard, Haruna Abdulrahman, appeared before an Ogudu magistrate’s court, Lagos, yesterday for allegedly impersonating a colonel in the Nigerian Army. Abdulrahman of Medina Gate, Ifako, faces a three-count charge of impersonation, assault and stealing. The prosecutor, Sgt. Ihiehie Lucky, said the accused committed the offences on September 27 at Deeper Life Bus […]
A 45-year-old security guard, Haruna Abdulrahman, appeared before an Ogudu magistrate’s court, Lagos, yesterday for allegedly impersonating a colonel in the Nigerian Army.
Abdulrahman of Medina Gate, Ifako, faces a three-count charge of impersonation, assault and stealing.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Ihiehie Lucky, said the accused committed the offences on September 27 at Deeper Life Bus Stop, Ifako-Gbagada, Lagos.
He said the complainant, Hassan Ayuba, reported the incident at Ifako Police Station.
According to him, at 8.00am on Sept. 27, the complainant, who is a commercial motorcyclist, was looking for passengers when the accused and two others still at large, waylaid him.
“He claimed to be a colonel in the Nigerian Army and wanted to be taken along with one other person to Bariga, but the complainant refused.
“The accused and two other men in uniform started beating the complainant with an Army belt,’’ the prosecutor said.
Ihiehie said N30,000 cash and a Techno phone valued at N5,000 were stolen from the complainant after beating him.
The offences contravened Section 77 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the section stipulates three years imprisonment for offenders.
The accused pleaded guilty to the first count charge of impersonation, but pleaded not guilty to the second and third count charges.
The magistrate, Mrs O.S. Amzat, granted the accused bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The case has been adjourned to October 30 for sentence on the first count charge and for mention on counts two and three. (NAN)