2 lovers arrested for alleged impersonation of FIRS chairman

Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, Director, Communications and Liaison Department of FIRS, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday.

Ahmad explained that the two suspects and lovers were arrested on Monday for allegedly impersonating the Executive Chairman of the service on Facebook to defraud unsuspecting job-seekers.

He said the female suspect who claimed to be a graduate of Imo State University, awaiting call-up for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and her lover were nabbed and currently in police net at the FCT police command in Abuja.

He disclosed that a team from the Intelligence and Investigation Unit of the FIRS nabbed the duo following a complaint by their victims and thereafter handed them to the police.

According to him, the male suspect who claimed to have owned a failed boutique business, confessed that he started impersonating the FIRS chairman on Facebook in March 2020.