Men of the Lagos State Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, aka task force, have arrested two ex-convicts for attempted fraud.

The suspects, Abdullahi Mohammed and Victor Etuk, were arrested on Thursday in the Oshodi area of the state while attempting to swindle an unsuspecting lady.

The Director, Press and Public Affairs of the agency, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, said the suspects had been convicted for similar crimes in the past.

He said, “They were arrested at mid-day by officers of the agency along Oshodi while in the process of swindling an unsuspecting lady walking along that axis by asking for direction to a non-existent market and then later asking her for a place to change their supposed large sum of dollars.

“She declined, but they promised her an iPhone 11 Pro Max and N200,000 if she could take them to where they could change their dollars. Her repeated appeal for them to leave her alone drew the attention of the officers, who swooped in on them and effected their arrest.

“One of the suspects, Victor Etuk, claimed he had been in the practice for over three years and was convicted for it in 2020 for seven months after being caught.

“The second suspect, Abdullahi Mohammed, is also an ex-convict who spent six weeks in the Badagry Custodial Centre after being convicted for other crimes.”

Abdulraheem said the Chairman of the agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, had ordered the prosecution of the two suspects.

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