For attempting to withdraw money from a dead man's account, a 65-year-old man is cooling his heel in police net.
65-year-old Joseph Akpan must be regretting his
decision to commit a monumental fraud by stealing from a dead man, as he
is currently languishing in the cells of the Lagos State Police Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in Ikeja.
According to the Vanguard Newspaper,
the Akwa Ibom State indigene was arrested on the 7th of January, 2015,
while trying to transfer the sum of N1 million naira into two separate
accounts in a bank in Ilorin, Kwara State.
But
the shocker was that the money did not belong to him but it belonged to a
35 year-old business man identified as Chinedu Mba, who was murdered
four months earlier by unknown gunmen in his apartment in Gindiri in
Mangu local government area of Plateau State.
Akpan's
albatross was in the frame of the bank cashier, who apparently
suspected some foul play, discretely called in the police while
pretending to transact the transfer.
Akpan was
duly arrested and transferred to the the Lion Building Division of the
Lagos State Police Command from where he was moved to the state SARS.
But
Akpan, in his confessional statement, claimed he did not know that the
account belonged to a dead man as he was hired by a man whose name he
simply gave as Benson, to make the transaction, with a promise to be
given N200,000 at the end.
In September 2014, a 55-year-old man, Chief Jude Dike, was arrested for leading a gang of armed robbers to terrorise residents of Lagos Island. Are the oldies taking over in crime?
