OPSH nab fake soldier, 20 others for various criminal activities in Jos
By Kingsley Chukwuka
The Special Combat Task Force mandate to restore peace in Plateau State, on Sunday paraded a fake soldier and 20 other young men responsible for heinous crimes in Jos.
The Taskforce code named Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), said the fake soldier who was identified as Mr. Dogo James, was arrested along Kashim Ibrahim location of Jos North Local Government Area, following a tip-off.
The imposter was caught with fake military identity card in a full regalia of military uniform, said the Commander of the Taskforce, Major General Chukwuemeka Okonkwo.
The arrest of the imposter led to the arrest of a printer who specialises in printing different forms of ID cards, Gen. Okonkwo explained to Journalist.
The printer who gave his name as Dotun Emmanuel said he has been in business producing fake ID cards of various security agencies for more than six years.
“Items recovered from them include assorted identity cards of security personnel, 2 Dell Desktop Computers, 3 CPU and 2 Canon ID cards Printers”, the taskforce boss said.
In a similar development, 20 other criminals were arrested in different parts of Jos metropolis during an operation launched by the task-force to bring sanity in the State.
The criminals are responsible in the various civil unrest that has hitherto bedeviled the State in the past few months, ranging from phone snatching, rape, cultism, crisis merchants and armed robbery.
In one of their recent deadly attacks, some of them known as Sara-suka boys were moving round the Bauchi road area in Jos-north with cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, cutting innocent citizens at random, and escaping with their belongings, our correspondent gathered.
Items recovered from them include Indian hemps, cannabis sativa, machetes, swords of various types of dagger and knives.
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Gen. Okonkwo in his determination to rid the State of criminal elements also said troops have arrested over 60 suspected criminals in the past couple of days.
He called on the general public to approach the taskforce with prompt and useful information that will lead to the arrest of more hoodlums.
