Awka—FIVE suspects, including a 54-year-old woman, were yesterday paraded by Anambra State Police Command for allegedly forging certificates of some tertiary institutions, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, discharge and exemption certificates and printing fake Nigerian currency.
One of the suspects, 75-year-old Mr. Onuzulike Ude, a retired teacher, was allegedly forging the certificates of the various tertiary institutions in a business centre operated by the 54-year-old woman, Mrs. Evelyn Nwoke, and, according to the police, they have been doing the business for a very long time.
Among the fake certificates recovered from them were those of University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; Federal Polytechnic, Oko; College of Education, Umunze, as well as NYSC discharge and exemption certificates.
Other documents recovered from them were certificates for Senior Community Health Extension Workers; Certificate for Junior Community Health Extension Workers; National Business and Technical Examination Board, NABTEB; Kano State Judiciary Statutory Declaration of Age; Afrihub Nigeria Limited certificate of participation and Oji River Local Government Identification Certificate.
Also paraded was one Ikechukwu Nze from Isuochi, Abia State, for allegedly printing fake N1,000 and N500 notes and making purchases with them, while Maduabuchi Chinedu from Achina in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State was arrested for robbing a man of N18,000, using a sharp knife.
Nze said it was his friend that gave him the fake currency when he told him that he (Nze) needed money to start a business.
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