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A man, who paraded himself as a staff of a radio station with the intent to defraud unsuspecting members of the public, has been arrested by the police.
A man, who paraded himself as a staff of a radio station with the intent to defraud unsuspecting members of the public, has been arrested by the police.
The suspect, David Vincent Ifusor, according to the Ogun state Commissioner of Police, Solomon Olusegun, was arrested after the authority of a school he intended to defraud called the police.
The police boss said Ifusor made school proprietors to part with their money after promising to advertise their schools in his 'non-existing programmes.'
P.M.News reliably gathered that a tape recorder and a fake identity card of Paramount FM were recovered from the suspect. The Ogun state Commissioner of Police said the suspect would be charged with fraud.
In his statement to the police, the 40-year-old suspect said: 'I have not being parading myself as a journalist as alleged. I am a presenter and I have been presenting programmes on radio since 1998.
'I presented programmes on Radio Nigeria, Brilla FM, Business FM, OGBC and a few television stations. I have handled music in Radio Nigeria, Music when you work, Your choice, Music in voque and Una good morning. For the past three years, I have been involved in buying airtime from radio stations.'