Posted by By JOE EFFIONG, Uyo on
A fake Assistant Superintendent of Police, who has been going about bailing people from police cells in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has himself become a cell inmate. Known as Jones Ntuk, 28, he was said to have also assisted the police in fighting crime in the society until he felt that he was security-conscious enough to promote himself to a superintendent of police.
A fake Assistant Superintendent of Police, who has been going about bailing people from police cells in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has himself become a cell inmate. Known as Jones Ntuk, 28, he was said to have also assisted the police in fighting crime in the society until he felt that he was security-conscious enough to promote himself to a superintendent of police.
Daily Sun learnt that Ntuk's false identity was revealed two weeks ago when he went to police A - Division along Wellington Bassey Way to secure the release of some motorcycles impounded over traffic offences.
Though he was obliged, an officer at the station, however, asked him the station in which he was serving and he quickly replied that his station was at Akpabuyo in Cross River State.
It was gathered that a few days after securing the release of the motorcycles, Ntuk later stormed the station in full police regalia with the rank of an ASP, but unknown to him, some officers at the A - Division had secretly contacted Akpabuyo police division and discovered that there was no ASP or even a policeman or woman with the name Jones Ntuk.
The suspect was, however, lucky that day as those officers who had found out about his impersonation were not around, but like whom the gods want to destroy, Ntuk was said to have gone to the station the next day to fraternise with other Supols only for a mere sergeant to order for his arrest and detention for impersonation.
Daily Sun learnt that immediately he was arrested, Ntuk confessed that he was not a policeman and that he bought the police regalia at the police shop in Uyo, and also lied to the storekeeper that he lost his identification card. That was how he acquired the identity card he was using.
Ntuk, who said he had been having the passion to join the police since he was in secondary school but failed each time he went for recruitment, explained that he was only left with the option of voluntarily helping the police unravel some crimes, and then he decided that he must acquired enough experience to promote himself to the rank of an ASP in April this year.
Though he said he knew that nemesis would catch up with him, the fake Supol said he could not abandon the police uniform because all his neighbours thought he was a senior police officer, thus removing the uniform would bring shame and rob him of the usual obeisance paid him by his neighbours.
According to him, the uniform was not meant to dupe people but just to fulfil his childhood dream of being a police officer.
The police public relations officer, Akwa Ibom State command, Mr. Suur Shafa (DSP), told Daily Sun that the suspect would soon be charged to court.