The police in Niger State have arrested Aver Wese (31) of Obudu, Cross River State, and Godwin Deor (30) of Ankpa, Kogi State, who specialise in swapping the ATM cards of bank customers at ATM points.
The spokesperson of the Niger State Police Command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, who paraded the suspects and said nine ATM cards were recovered from them, explained that they were arrested at the Old NEPA Roundabout, Suleja, after they attempted to swap a female victim’s ATM card at a commercial bank’s ATM gallery.
He said, “The victim discovered the attempt and raised alarm, while the suspects immediately entered a Toyota Corolla with Reg No: YAB 267 CW, and zoomed off.
“Consequently, a police patrol team was alerted and they trailed the vehicle and intercepted it at the Old NEPA Roundabout and the two suspects were arrested, while the driver, one David Therma, abandoned the vehicle and escaped.”
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Abiodun said that during interrogation the suspects confessed that they came from Lokoja and met David in Zuba, Abuja, who was said to have taken the vehicle from an Uber driver in Abuja.
He further said that the suspects also narrated that they went to the commercial bank where they met the female victim who was having difficulties in operating an ATM.
He explained further that, “They spied on her PIN and offered to help her as the machine did not dispense, but in the process the card was ejected and they attempted to swap the card and she noticed the act and raised alarm.
“The suspects claimed that they were graduates of educational technology from the Benue State University and that they had been carrying out such nefarious activities for the past five months, in which they withdrew about N170,000 from their victims’ accounts in Nasarawa State, about M90,000 in Lokoja, Kogi State, before the attempt in Suleja.”
