{"id":26311,"date":"2024-04-09T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-arrest-2-for-impersonation-extortion-at-lagos-ports\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T11:04:08","slug":"police-arrest-2-for-impersonation-extortion-at-lagos-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-arrest-2-for-impersonation-extortion-at-lagos-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 2 for impersonation, extortion at Lagos ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Maritime Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested two men suspected of impersonation and extortion.<\/p>\n<p>The Command\u2019s spokesperson, ASP Rowland Ehinmode, confirmed the arrest on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ehinmode said that the suspects were arrested on April 2 for alleged conspiracy and forgery of Maritime Police Command official\/investigation documents, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were arrested after a complaint was lodged at the Maritime Police Command Headquarters that some containers were blocked with purported documents from the Command, contrary to the directives of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Maritime, Lagos, Mrs Rhoda Olofu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AIG, on assumption of office in November 2023, ordered the immediate release of all containers blocked or placed on lien at the ports without cogent reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was to give effect to the Federal Government\u2019s policy on Ease of Doing Business at the country\u2019s seaports .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe warned that blocking of containers should be based only on credible information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The image maker said that investigation, however, revealed that the suspects allegedly conspired and forged the Maritime Police Command\u2019s official documents.<\/p>\n<p>He said that they also impersonated officers of the Command and blocked more than 20 containers for purposes of extorting money from the consignees and clearing agents.<\/p>\n<p>Ehinmode said that the AIG frowned at the unwholesome, fraudulent and criminally minded individuals parading themselves as officers of Maritime Police Command.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AIG advised port users to always verify from the Maritime Police Command the authenticity of any purported investigation activities or container blockage letters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police arrest 2 for impersonation, extortion at Lagos ports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maritime Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested two men suspected of impersonation and extortion. The Command\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,384,15,310],"tags":[164,387,180,99],"class_list":["post-26311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lagos","category-metro","category-news","category-police","tag-lagos","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26311","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=26311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}