As
what could be termed a new twist in the antics of robbery, extortion and
defraudment, a new book has just been opened by a young teenager, Mohammed Isah
from Katsina State at the Ikeja Command Headquarters in Lagos State.
Unfortunately for the teenager, his regular antics of deceit and con failed to
yield him the normal results and thereafter got nabbed by the Intelligence Unit
of the Ikeja Police Command.
Mohammed Isah, the teenage extorting criminal
According to Channels
Television reports, Mohammed Isah had no formal education; as this is still a
common norm with the teenagers in the northern part of the country. In some
parts of northern Nigeria, it is still regular to find a young man in his late
teens or twenties but without even the attempt of formal primary education.
This norm of life is not common with their counterparts from the southern part
of the country. In the southern Nigeria, it is a common privilege for every
family to have their wards passed through the primary education system at
least. Unimaginably as it is currently, primary education in Nigeria is
relatively free for many decades now, then, one has to wonder why some children
especially the male, would still grow up to the attainment of adulthood without
even any formal education as least as primary school.
Mohammed Isah had resided in
Abia State in some months back as a merchandiser in second-hand shoes. His
business later got soured and later liquidated. As he could not have any other
means of income, he resulted to a dastardly act of deceit to con the Nigerian
Police into extortion of thousands of naira. One got the puzzle why such a young
lad without any formal education should have resulted to using the police as
stooge and stoop to his income. How did he even think up such notion as to
focus on the Nigerian Police for his selfish extortion? Was he on a revenge
mission for what the police had done to him or a relative in the past?
According to the Lagos State
Commissioner of Police who narrated the ordeal of the teenager to the press,
the entire story of the deceitful extortion started from Anambra State in about
two years ago. Mohammed Isah had approached a police command in Onitsha to
report that a patrol team on the highway had apprehended him innocently and
extorted a total of N150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand naira only)
from him and then, allowed him to go. With the boldness in narrating such story;
with the confidence to have walked into the police command; with the tone of
voice he used when narrating his story, nobody would have had any iota of doubt
about the authenticity of the young lad’s allegation. The command heads of the Onitsha
Police Command summoned the police officers on patrol duty of the day who all
denied of any contact or confrontation with the young lad. They sworn they never
had any knowledge about the statement as made by the boy. Just as it is today,
even the police commanders themselves no longer believe in the words of their
serving officers as the Nigerian citizenry already have a mindset of taking the
operations of police officers in akin with unending corruption in the land.
This prompted their belief that the young lad could not have cooked up such
story. Hence, the police officers were punished and the sum of N150,000.00 (one
hundred and fifty thousand naira only) was given to the teenager as refund.
In another location, Ondo
State to be specific, six police officers were dismissed from service, owing to
the same allegation of police extortion by the young teenager, Mohammed Isah.
Just as he did in Anambra State, he had also gone to the police command in
Akure to report his fallacious allegation of apprehension and extortion by a
patrol team on the highway. Same as it was in Anambra State, the officers
denied such allegation but they were not as lucky as their colleagues in
Anambra. They were accused and dismissed from the police force. They lost their
job after an ambiguous investigation which they faulted as a channel of
punishing them for a crime they believed that did not even exist.
The deceitful young lad had
succeeded in his con of extortion at three other locations until luck ran out
of him at the Ikeja Command in few days back. On a count, the police
commissioner at Ikeja Command reported that his attempt of defraudment at the
Ikeja Command was the six incidence by the criminal teenager who could even
hardly communicated in good pidgin English. He employed his usual antics of
deceit with the allegation of being apprehended and extorted the sum of N150,000.00
(one hundred and fifty thousand naira only) by a patrol men on the highway.
The police commanders almost got consumed with the allegation as truism until
an officer who was recently posted from Anambra State raised a contrary
observation. He was at the command where a young lad made a similar allegation
in some few months back. They immediately pulled a call through to the command
in Anambra to demand for the picture of the boy that made such allegation in
the past. Unknown to the young criminal lad, his image was captured by the
command at the time the incidence occurred.
However, it was another
apprehension of astonishment when the picture was sent from Anambra State.
Alas! The picture of the lad in Anambra was same as the boy at Ikeja command!
Moreover, on conducting wider investigation, it was discovered how the young
criminal had gone to different states including Anambra and Ondo, with the same
antics of allegation and extortion. He was later arrested and was ordered to
make his statement to the press. You could not imagine the kind of manageable pidgin
English he muttered. It took a harder comprehensive aid to absorb the meaning
of his words where he could not even pronounce ‘God’ but muttered a word as
‘Kod’ to mean God. This heightened the concern of many Nigerians as to how such
illiterate had managed to come up with such creative style of allegation and
extortion from the Nigeria Police.
It was so sad to witness how
deranged and frustrated the six dismissed officers from Ondo State sounded when
they narrated their ordeal to the press. One of them in tears, explained that
he had continuously warned that the police leaders erred in their investigation
that led to their sack from the police force. He had always warned that such
ambiguous investigation may lead to some daunting revelation about the
operations of the police command in Ondo. However, they gave thanks to God for
their untimely vindication but little they could tell about the possibility of their
reinstatement to the police force.
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