Delta State Police Arrests 5 People for Pretending to Be EFCC Officials

Five individuals have been detained by Delta State police on suspicion of impersonating EFCC agents in order to scam members of the public.

According to a press release from the Delta State Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Edafe Bright, the police reacted in response to a number of complaints from the public, particularly from youths, who claimed that EFCC agents frequently break into their homes at night, arrest them forcibly, take them away, and demand a sizable sum of money from them.

The police acted right away, and information acquired suggested that they may not be EFCC agents after all.

On November 16, 2022, the Command received a second complaint from a victim (name withheld) who had been the victim of a nighttime home invasion by the syndicate. They had scaled the fence to get inside the compound, broken into his apartment, and taken him by force into a white Toyota Hiace bus.

The victim added that when they arrived at Head Bridge, which marks the border between Anambra and Delta States, they took his phones and other valuables worth N3,700,000 ($2,500,000) from him and forced him to make a cash transfer of N2,500,000 ($2,500,000). They also threatened to come after him again. Five additional victims came forward to the Command and described how they were robbed of approximately 15 million naira in their statements.

The police said that it quickly became apparent that the actions were those of criminals posing as EFCC agents.