Two ‘one chance’ drivers, Paul Danjuma and Abubakar Mohammed have been arrested by the police for defrauding a woman of N401,000 in Abuja.
FCT Police Commissioner Sunday Babaji, who disclosed this while parading the suspects at the command headquarters in Abuja, over the weekend, said the suspects are natives of Plateau and Niger states but residing at Jahi and Gwagwa, in the FCT.
He said the suspects were arrested by the command at the Wuse axis during a stop-and-search operation.
The CP said preliminary investigations by the police team revealed that one of the suspects posed as a taxi driver and the other as a passenger, and picked the victim as a passenger.
He said the suspects picked the woman who had closed from work and on their way to her destination, locked the car, changed route, tied her up and demanded her ATM card.
“They also threatened to rape and kill her if she didn’t co-operate with them. They used her ATM card to withdraw the sum of N391,000 from her account via ATM and POS transactions, while the sum of N10,000 cash which she had on her was also collected from her,” he said.
He, however, said the suspects were apprehended by operatives of the Wuse division on stop-and-search duty, while also looking out for passengers who may have fallen victim to the “one-chance” criminals.
CP Babaji, said exhibits recovered from the suspects included their operational vehicle, a black Toyota Corolla car, N401,000, a point-of-Sale (POS) machine, four mobile phones, two knives, ropes, foreign currency notes and duct tape.
He said the suspects would be charged to court, even as he enjoined residents to continue to support the police by reporting all suspicious movements through the command emergencies and distresses phone lines: 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653 and 08028940883.
