A 36-year-old man, Kenneth Mamawa, has been arrested for claiming to be a captain in the Nigerian Navy. The fake captain, who hails from Rivers State, was arrested while parading himself as a Navy captain, according to the Executive Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, Navy Captain Olusegun Soyemi.
The suspect was yesterday handed over to operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) for further investigation. Soyemi, who said that suspect had been placed under observation after the Navy got wind of his criminal activities, noted that Mamawa was arrested when he was about to deceive and dupe members of the public. He also said that the suspect had also paraded himself as member of the Rivers State House of Assembly and a medical doctor with the sole aim of defrauding unsuspecting individuals and companies.
He added: “Following intelligence report on January 29, we detailed our naval intelligence team who tracked, trailed and monitored Mr Kenneth Mamawa’s movement until eventually he was arrested. Mamawa, who hails from Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State, was arrested while pretending to be an officer of the Nigerian Navy.
