The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it has arrested one Felix Idowu for allegedly impersonating its Acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu.
In a statement, Spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said the suspect was a real estate agent and graduate of Political Science.
Uwujaren said Idowu was found with documents which had the forged signature of the EFCC boss, and would be charged to court as soon as investigation was concluded.
โPrior to his arrest, the EFCC received intelligence report that the suspect, while posing as operative of the EFCC, requested for money in order โto killโ a petition purportedly written against the complainant.
โThe EFCC swung into action by asking the complainant to play along. In the process, Idowu was asked to liaise with the complainantโs personal assistant, who was an EFCC undercover agent.
โWhile interacting with the undercover agent, the suspect was lured to a popular supermarket in Wuse 2, Abuja, where he was arrested on Monday, April 30.
โUpon search of his Lexus EX 350 car, a lot of documents were recovered including letter of investigation activities on a fake EFCC letter-head paper with โRef No: CTGI/6/vol.1โ.
โAlso found was a letter of petition written to EFCC with โEFCC stamp receivedโ bearing Maguโs forged signature,โโ he said.
Impersonation of Magu and other officials of the EFCC by fraudsters has been a source of worry to the commission.
The commission has issued several alerts in recent times to warn members of the public against fraudsters using Maguโs name for extortion.
The latest arrest came barely two years after the commission apprehended three suspects for a similar offence in August 9, 2016.
On September 16, 2016, a High Court sitting in Gombe sentenced one Muhammad Adamu to 14 years in prison for posing as an EFCC operative to extort the stateโs Muslim Pilgrimsโ Welfare Board.
