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A man identified as Husseni Diyaya Allam has been arrested by police
operatives in Lagos for disguising as a woman to defraud men.
The suspect was nabbed around CMS, Lagos Island, alongside one Hasimu Solli, during a scuffle in the area.
The
Nation gathered that Solli, who had spent about N15, 000 on the suspect
he knew to be Khadijat, was trying to convince her to follow him to his
house since they were planning to get married.
During the
scuffle, a police patrol team from Lion Building Police Station saw the
duo and took them to the station for peaceful settlement.
It was gathered that Solli discovered during interrogation at the station that his supposed wife was actually a man.
Upon
further interrogation, the suspect, a resident of 19, Opeloyeru Street,
Onipanu, Lagos, has defrauded several men under the guise of marrying
them.
Our correspondent gathered that Solli has even spent N15, 000 on the suspect, thinking he was investing in his would be wife.
Confirming
the story, the state command’s spokesman, Joseph Offor, a DSP, said the
suspect has confessed that he has been doing it for over two years.
Offor
said the suspect, a Kano State indigene, will be transferred to the
State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further
investigation.