{"id":25875,"date":"2024-04-06T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-nab-dismissed-naval-officer-over-alleged-impersonation-thuggery\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:06:01","slug":"police-nab-dismissed-naval-officer-over-alleged-impersonation-thuggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-nab-dismissed-naval-officer-over-alleged-impersonation-thuggery\/","title":{"rendered":"Police nab dismissed Naval officer over alleged impersonation, thuggery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a dismissed Nigerian Navy personnel for allegedly impersonating a serving military officer and lending himself out to assault people.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Command\u2019s spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the suspect was apprehended while he and his boys were beating a hotel staff.<\/p>\n<p>Hundeyin said the job was contracted to him by one of the hotel\u2019s customers who had refused to stop smoking in a \u2018no smoking\u2019 area of the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PPRO, the dismissed naval officer charged N20,000 to bring his boys to beat up anybody for his clients.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the suspect was dismissed 24 years ago from the Nigeria Navy, but continued to parade himself as a serving personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect was dismissed since 2000, but still parades himself as a naval officer,\u2019\u2019 Hundeyin stressed.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that the suspect would soon be arraigned.<\/p>\n<p>Police nab dismissed Naval officer over alleged impersonation, thuggery<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a dismissed Nigerian Navy personnel for allegedly impersonating a serving military officer and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,10946,15,310],"tags":[387,9729,180,99],"class_list":["post-25875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-naval","category-news","category-police","tag-metro","tag-naval","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}