Four members of the Peace Corps of Nigeria have been arrested by the Plateau State Police Command for assaulting a police detective during a recruitment exercise by the organisation, even as the command said activities of the organisation are illegal.
The Police Public Relation officer, Mohammed Lerama who said the recruitment into the organisation was illegal because of its earlier banned, added that the police decided to investigate it when it got wind of recruitment into the organisation last week.
According to him, on getting to the field where the recruitment was being carried out, some staff of the organisation descended on the police officers who was investigating the recruitment exercise and manhandled him.
In the raid that followed, the police arrested four staff and three applicants and items recovered include two sacks of T-shirts, 18 rolls of face cap, two LG coloured television, one desk-top monitor, one UPS, one printer, a bundle of peace corps pamphlets, one banner and one signboard.
In a related development, one Alhaji Idris Isah had been arrested for impersonating the Taraba State Commissioner of Education, while attempting to collect N13,000 to give the “press a contract”
The command also disclosed that an internet fraud star who threatened one Mr Etukudoh Sunday with death if he fails to deposit a N1.9 million into a bank account in 30 minutes or loss his life and a descript “investigation, one suspects, Stephen Jonah was arrested in Kogi state” and is deeply involve in the case, he said.
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