Military Police personnel have arrested one Rufai Abubakar for posing as a senior Military officer and attempting to access a military installation at Burma Camp, Accra.
The suspect, dressed in military camouage uniform decorated with a fake Lieutenant Colonel Rank, claimed he was
stationed at the Northern Command Headquarters and was proceeding to the Airforce Base to book a ight to Tamale.
A statement issued by the Public Relations Department, signed by Naval Captain Micheal Addo Larbi, said the
suspect who entered the Camp via a commercial vehicle was closely monitored by guards on duty as he alighted at
a bus stop and headed to the Air Force Base.
The guards noted Abubakar’s suspicious behaviour and questioned him. The suspect, who had on him a fake military
identication and business cards bearing the name Mr. Abubakar at the time of his arrest, gave incoherent answers,
and eventually confessed that he was not a service personnel, the statement said.
It said further that the suspect told the Military Police that his reason for impersonating an ocer was that he had
collected an amount of Three Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢3,000.00) from one Mr Abdallah Abdul Fatahu under the
pretext of recruiting him into the Ghana Armed Forces.
A search by at his two residences at Ablekuma Fan Milk and Olebu respectively led to the retrieval of documents,
including several certicates and fake Ghana Armed Forces recruitment application summary reports bearing names
of defrauded persons, military uniforms and accoutrements and a toy pistol.
The suspect, has since been handed over to the Police CID for further investigation and prosecution.
GAF entreated any person defrauded by the suspect to contact the Police CID to help in investigations, and called on
the public to support GAF and the Security Services to weed out miscreants in the communities.
Source: GNA