Five In Police Net For Selling New Naira Notes In Ogun

FIVE persons have been arrested by the Police in Ogun State for
allegedly selling new Naira notes. They were arrested in different
parts of the State over the weekend, during a sting operation
jointly carried out by police operatives of the Ogun State Police
Command and officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

In a statement by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer,
Abimbola Oyeyemi said the arrest was in line with the provisions of
section 21(1) of the CBN act 2007 which made Hawking, selling and
abuse of Naira a punishable offence.

Those arrested were Toyin Alegbe, Kehinde Akinbode, Shoneye
Latifat, Kehinde Olanrewaju and Iyanuoluwa Shokunbi.

Various denominations of Naira notes totalling 1,560,000 was
recovered from the suspects who were publicly exhibiting their
illicit trades.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu had directed the
Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department, Aminu Alhassan to
commence full scale investigation into the activities of these
suspects with the view of bringing to book others in their shoes
and prosecute them accordingly.

The CP equally warned members of the public to desist from any
act capable of soiling, abusing or destroying the Naira which is
one of the symbols of our national identity.

The CP, therefore, expressed his readiness to work with all
government agencies to stamp out crime and criminality in the
State.

FIVE persons have been arrested by the Police in Ogun State for
allegedly selling new Naira notes. They were arrested in different
parts of the State over the weekend, during a sting operation
jointly carried out by police operatives of the Ogun State Police
Command and officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

In a statement by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer,
Abimbola Oyeyemi said the arrest was in line with the provisions of
section 21(1) of the CBN act 2007 which made Hawking, selling and
abuse of Naira a punishable offence.

Those arrested were Toyin Alegbe, Kehinde Akinbode, Shoneye
Latifat, Kehinde Olanrewaju and Iyanuoluwa Shokunbi.

Various denominations of Naira notes totalling 1,560,000 was
recovered from the suspects who were publicly exhibiting their
illicit trades.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu had directed the
Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department, Aminu Alhassan to
commence full scale investigation into the activities of these
suspects with the view of bringing to book others in their shoes
and prosecute them accordingly.

The CP equally warned members of the public to desist from any
act capable of soiling, abusing or destroying the Naira which is
one of the symbols of our national identity.

The CP, therefore, expressed his readiness to work with all
government agencies to stamp out crime and criminality in the
State.