Attempt by a 48-year-old fake journalist to
blackmail a senior Immigration Service
officer at the Lagos State Command,
Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos, has been foiled. The suspect, Udeh Nick, with others at
large, who identified themselves as
journalists from different media houses,
reportedly wrote a letter to the senior
officer last Thursday, requesting for a
meeting with him.
Mr. Udeh, ‘journalist.’ Trouble, as gathered, started for the
impostors as the officer, out of curiosity,
referred them to the command’s
spokesman. Unknown to Nick, who allegedly led the
delegation, calls were reportedly made to
management of the media house he claimed
to be from, including his scanned
photograph, only to discover he had never
been a staff of the company. In this interview with Vanguard, the suspect,
who claimed in the letter to the officer that
they came from Abuja for a seminar in
Lagos, pleaded to be let off the hook. He, however, denied attempting to
blackmail the officer. He said: “I have never been a staff of
Newswatch. We did not blackmail him. The
letter we wrote is a friendly one. I don’t
know why they are reading meaning into it. “We only asked for a friendly meeting with
him. We decided to do something to access
him, being a new man there. We just wanted
to reach out to him as a friend because if
you read the letter there was no place we
said we needed anything because there was nothing he had done to warrant any
blackmail. “However, in this case we went too far. I
agree that the act is criminal and I accept
that I am guilty of impersonation and there
is no point denying. “I am appealing that I should be shown
some mercy.”
blackmail a senior Immigration Service
officer at the Lagos State Command,
Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos, has been foiled. The suspect, Udeh Nick, with others at
large, who identified themselves as
journalists from different media houses,
reportedly wrote a letter to the senior
officer last Thursday, requesting for a
meeting with him.
Mr. Udeh, ‘journalist.’ Trouble, as gathered, started for the
impostors as the officer, out of curiosity,
referred them to the command’s
spokesman. Unknown to Nick, who allegedly led the
delegation, calls were reportedly made to
management of the media house he claimed
to be from, including his scanned
photograph, only to discover he had never
been a staff of the company. In this interview with Vanguard, the suspect,
who claimed in the letter to the officer that
they came from Abuja for a seminar in
Lagos, pleaded to be let off the hook. He, however, denied attempting to
blackmail the officer. He said: “I have never been a staff of
Newswatch. We did not blackmail him. The
letter we wrote is a friendly one. I don’t
know why they are reading meaning into it. “We only asked for a friendly meeting with
him. We decided to do something to access
him, being a new man there. We just wanted
to reach out to him as a friend because if
you read the letter there was no place we
said we needed anything because there was nothing he had done to warrant any
blackmail. “However, in this case we went too far. I
agree that the act is criminal and I accept
that I am guilty of impersonation and there
is no point denying. “I am appealing that I should be shown
some mercy.”
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