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The Lagos State Police Command on Monday, paraded five men for
printing local and foreign currencies.
Two of the suspects, Femi Jacob
and Ramon Adeoye, were arrested at Ogunlana Street,
Alagbado with eight
printing machines and a large quantity of printed fake notes in Naira,
Dollars, Pounds, Euros and Cedis totalling N8m while Isaka Usman and
Akeem Ayobado, were nabbed at Ikorodu with 14 printing machines, one
cutting machine and N100m fake notes. The fifth suspect, Onyeka Ibe, was
allegedly an Anambra-based buyer, who usually comes to Lagos to buy
fake currencies.
The state Command’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko, said,
“This syndicate has been in operation for over five years. Their
customers are spread across several African countries like the Republic
of Benin, Mali, Ghana, Togo, Liberia and Sierra Leone.