A SELF-STYLED national security operative has been remanded into police custody for allegedly attempting to dupe a magistrate at the Sanitation and Motor Court at Abeka in Accra.
The suspect, Salifu Issifu, 42, who claimed to be a Deputy Co-ordinator of the Confiscated Vehicles Allocation Committee, has been accused of collecting GH¢100 from the magistrate, Mr Emmanuel Nana Antwi-Barima, with the view to processing documents for the allocation of one of the confiscated vehicles to the magistrate.
The police are also investigating the accused for allegedly collecting money from other people to either help enlist them into the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) or get them some of the confiscated vehicles.
Narrating the case to the Daily Graphic after Issifu had been remanded into police custody for two weeks, the Tesano District Crime Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr George Lysander Asare, said Issifu approached and convinced the magistrate that he could help the magistrate to get one of the confiscated vehicles.
Issifu then collected GH¢100 and passport size pictures from the magistrate to begin processing the documents for the release of the car to him.
Mr Asare said the magistrate, however, reported the matter to the Tesano Police after realising that Issifu was not forthcoming with the truth regarding the processing of the documents and when the car would be released.
He said further checks by the magistrate also revealed that the accused person was a swindler.
Mr Asare said the suspect was subsequently arrested.
According to him, the police uncovered various documents with Ghana’s Coat of Arms embossed on them when a search was conducted in Issifu’s room at the Diana Guest House at Dome CFC, where he was lodging.
Some of the documents, he said, also had the stamp of a Deputy Chief of Staff on them.
The crime officer said further investigations also revealed that Issifu had collected GH¢290 from someone identified as Isaac Kwabena Adjanor, a resident of Dome, with the promise of getting him enlisted into the GNFS through the Office of the President.
He said the accused also had in his possession prospectus for women applicants into the Ghana Immigration Service for 2012/2013.
Mr Asare said the police suspected that the accused could have been using those documents to swindle unsuspecting people.
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