Maiduguri Dismissed Soldier Poses As Lieutenant To Rob In Lagos

Anthony Emmanuel (Donald)

Police Charges Maiduguri Dismissed Soldier, For Impersonation, Robbery In Lagos.

The Police have arrested a 28 year old, Emmanuel Anthony who was recently dismissed from the Army for fleeing Boko Haram hot zone, Maiduguri and impersonating as a lieutenant in Lagos.

Anthony was arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court in April 2018, for posing as an army lieutenant to commit crime.

After which his picture was reportedly identified online by a man as a member of the gang that snatched his Lexus SUV on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway sometime in February 2018.

The victim reported to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Ibrahim, at the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, who recalled the Akwa Ibom State indigene from court.

The Zone 2 Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Dolapo Badmos, said Anthony confessed to the crime and would also be charged with robbery.