Accra, Dec 7, GNA – Military Police personnel have arrested one Rufai Abubakar for posing as a senior Military Officer and attempting to access a military installation at Burma Camp, Accra.
The suspect, dressed in military camouflage uniform decorated with a fake Lieutenant Colonel Rank, claimed he was stationed at the Northern Command Headquarters and was proceeding to the Airforce Base to book a flight to Tamale.
A statement issued by the Public Relations Department, signed by Naval Captain Micheal Addo Larbi, said the suspect who entered the Camp via a commercial vehicle was closely monitored by guards on duty as he alighted at a bus stop and headed to the Air Force Base.
The guards noted Abubakar’s suspicious behaviour and questioned him. The suspect, who had on him a fake military identification and business cards bearing the name Mr. Abubakar at the time of his arrest, gave incoherent answers, and eventually confessed that he was not a service personnel, the statement said.
It said further that the suspect told the Military Police that his reason for impersonating an officer was that he had collected an amount of Three Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢3,000.00) from one Mr Abdallah Abdul Fatahu under the pretext of recruiting him into the Ghana Armed Forces.
A search by at his two residences at Ablekuma Fan Milk and Olebu respectively led to the retrieval of documents, including several certificates and fake Ghana Armed Forces recruitment application summary reports bearing names of defrauded persons, military uniforms and accoutrements and a toy pistol.
The suspect, has since been handed over to the Police CID for further investigation and prosecution.
GAF entreated any person defrauded by the suspect to contact the Police CID to help in investigations, and called on the public to support GAF and the Security Services to weed out miscreants in the communities.
GNA