The Nigerian Police on Tuesday said a man who had posed as an assistant commissioner of police is now facing trial in the law court.
The suspect was identified as Kingsley Udoyen of 3 Stadium Road, Abak, Akwa Ibom State.
He is 56 years old.
According to reports, Udoyen is now undergoing criminal prosecution at the Magistrate Court, Abak, Akwa Ibom State.
He was arrested on 2nd January, 2019 by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command and paraded with other criminal elements by the then Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State Police Command, CP Musa Kimo, now AIG in charge of Zone 6 Headquarters, Calabar.
“He is an impersonator who was posing as an Assistant Commissioner of Police to defraud and threaten unsuspecting members of the public before he ran out of luck and was subsequently arrested”, the police said
Recall that the fake ACP Udoyen, had earlier confessed in January that he was dismissed from Lagos Police Command, Alagbon Division in 2007 for engaging in an illegal act.
His words at the time“I started when I lost my job, I was with the police in Alagbon as a Superintendent of Police. I was dismissed in 2007 because of the illegal job I went for.
“I left Lagos in 2008 and went to Calabar, where I met Glory Etim, my girlfriend.
“She is the one who bought all these police uniforms for me, she is a serving officer and works with the Police Secondary School. I am a car dealer and I go to Cotonou. Since I was dismissed, I don’t have a job.
“I am 56 years old from Mbiaobong Ikot Etefia in Ikono and I am married with four children. I know that what I am doing is against the law,” he said.