Rivers State Police Nab Fake Soldier

A 30-year-old man identified as Samuel Ita Ekeng who has been posing as a soldier and using his fake identity to defraud unsuspecting members has been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command.

Samuel was arrested while dressed in a full military camouflage on Friday, November 14, 2014, by a group of security operatives on Ikwerre Road in Port Harcourt, the state capital, Punch reports.

The fake soldier, Samuel Ita Ekeng

According to the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad, a green guide Nigeria paramilitary identity card, one Nigeria merchant identity card bearing his name, three camouflage shorts, one military camouflage T-shirt, one military jacket, a pair of military trousers and one military cap were recovered from the suspected impersonator.


“He was arrested while fully dressed in military camouflage. He goes about parading himself to be an Army (officer), harassing and extorting money from unsuspecting citizens.

“The courts are not working now, but we intend to charge them to court as soon as possible. Members of the public are hereby advised to be wary of such characters and report any person wearing uniform of any of the security agencies they reasonably suspected to be fake one to the nearest police station,” he said.

Mohammed therefore urged members of the public to be conscious of charlatans within their midst and report such cases to law enforcement agents.