Five suspects in Police net for hawking and selling naira notes in ogun

By Latifat Okunade

Five suspects are now in Police net for allegedly Hawking and selling Naira notes in Ogun state.

The suspects, Toyin Alegbe,  Kehinde Akinbode , Shoneye Latifat , Kehinde Olanrewaju and Iyanuoluwa shokunbi were arrested by the Police in various parts of the state.

Spokesman of the state Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who made this known said that they were arrested in Ijebu ode, shagamu and Abeokuta areas of the state during a sting operation jointly carried out by Police operatives and officials of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last Thursday and Friday.

Oyeyemi said the operation is in line with the provisions of section 21(1) of the CBN act 2007 which made Hawking, selling and abuse of Naira a punishable offence.

He added that various denominations of Naira notes totaling N1,560,000 was recovered from the suspects.

The State Police Commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu according to Oyeyemi has directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of state criminal investigation and intelligence department of the Command, Aminu Alhassan to commence full scale investigation into the activities of the suspects with the view of bringing to book others in their shoes and prosecuting them accordingly.

He added that the Commissioner also warned members of the public to desist from any act capable of soiling, abusing or destroying the Naira which is one of the symbols of national identity and expressed his readiness to work with all government agencies to stamp out crime and criminality in the state.