By Hameed Abubakar, Jalingo
The Taraba State Command of the Department of State Security Services, (DSS) on Friday paraded a 45-year-old Ishaya Adamu Jonathan for parading himself as a DSS officer while defrauding people in Gombe, Adamawa and Taraba states.
The Taraba State Director of the State Department of State Security Service, Alhaji Bashir Abubakar while briefing newsmen in Jalingo said Ishaya Adamu Jonathan was arrested in Ambairi hotel along Donga road Jalingo few days ago.
According to the DSS, the suspect was hibernating in the hotel with his purported wife who was later discovered he married with deceit while impersonating himself as a very senior officer of the SSS.
The Taraba state Asistant State Director of department of state security service, S.A Balongun, who read the text on behalf of the state Director lamented that the suspect deceived the public that he had undergone several operations for the services which he claimed earned him accelerated promotion to the rank of Assistant Director.
Balogun told newsman that the suspect lied to his victims, including his purported wife that he was recently transferred from Gombe to Nassarawa State.
“He was telling the lies in order to apparently cover up his fraudulent identity from his acclaimed wife and the general public.
One of the recent victims of the suspect was a 55-year-old, a diviocee and mother of four who he met in Gombe State early this year and proposed a marriage laced with deceit.
The marriage was purportedly solemnised by a mallam in Yola, Adamawa State in the absence of the said woman, he said.
According to him, Jonathan who was hitherto a Christian claimed to have converted to Islam and now bears Shaibu Adamu in order to fulfill one of the conditions offered as prerequisite for the marriage.
Alogun maintained that the suspect was discovered to have made away with several belongings of the purported wife to an elusive matrimonial apartment in Jalingo.
He further revealed that the suspect deceitfully collected the woman’s Honda Odyssey vehicle with a promise to buy her a brand new Toyota vibe car when he recieved his leave allowance and other packages from the service.
“He later turned the vehicle to commercial venture, traversing Bauchi and Gombe states while deceiving the woman that he was at his new duty post in Nassarawa command of the service and was not released to visit her because of the COVID-19 pandemic” he noted.
The service warn members of the public, especially those who indulge themselves in this kind of criminal activities to desist forthwith as such person or persons would be dealt with within the ambit of the law if caught in the act.
