Winneba, May 26, GNA - The Effutu Municipal Police commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police Francis Yiribaare, has said fraudulent acts in the municipality continue to increase for the past two years and called on the public to help reverse the situation. He said in 2007 fraud cases were 483 out of 1,784 cases reported to the police in the municipality.

Mr Yiribaare said this at the swearing-in of the new Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Education, Winneba. He said in 2008 crimes of dishonesty again constituted 495 of 1,614 cases reported to the command. "As at the close of March 2009 we have recorded 313 case of which 107 border on dishonesty".

He therefore urged the public to be cautious in their dealings with strange messages in their e-mail boxes especially pertaining to packages or sums of money they have allegedly won in lucky-draws in the United States and UK and the need to send advanced administrative fees to enable them claim the prize.

He said his outfit is investigating a student of the university, who is on the run, who used a pay in slip of his colleague teacher to obtain loans from non-banking financial institutions. Mr Yiribaare appealed to the new SRC executives to improve upon the achievement of their predecessors for the benefit of the university. The new SRC President, Mr Saeed Abdul Faruk, appealed to the university authorities to permit non-resident students to pay lesser Junior Common Room dues since they do not use the halls' facilities as their resident counterparts do. 26 May 09