Crime & Punishment of Thursday, 19 November 2009

Source: GNA

Fake National Security man napped

Nsawam, Nov. 19 - GNA - A circuit court at Nsawam, on Wednesday remanded into prison custody Henry Neequaye, 41, who posed as a staff of the National Security.

The Nsawam Municipal Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Alex Kojo Wowolo confirmed to GNA that the suspect was apprehended by the Police at Nsawam. He said that the Neequaye asked some people to submit application letters so that he could assist them join the Ghana Police Service, Customs, Exercise and Preventive Service, Military. DSP Wowolo said Neequaye also promised to help other people to gain employment at some ministries, Blue Skies Company at Nsawam and the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS).

DSP Wowolo said Neequaye could not produce any form of identity to prove that he was security personnel. The Municipal Police Commander said two application letters for recruitment into the GIS were found on the suspect when a search was carried on him at the Police station.

DSP Wowolo said the suspect in 2004 was arrested, prosecuted and jailed for posing as a medical officer at the Nsawam Government Hospital and another time for presenting himself as pathologist at the same hospital.