A 19-year-old tiler, identified as Daniel Daisi, has confessed that he faked police arrest to deceive and defraud his victims in Lagos.

The team commander of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Salmon .A. Opukeme, said Daisi specialised in collecting huge sums of money from would-be customers for tiling jobs, only to lie to them that he was being detained by the police.

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The Ondo State indigene would later tell the unsuspecting customers that the police had collected the money meant to buy tiles and warned that he must not be sighted in the area where he was supposed to do the job or he would be rearrested and charged to court.

Luck, however, ran out on him after playing the trick on a customer identified as Waliu Ogundele.

Waliu was said to have gone to the FSARS station at Onilekere with him to demand why he was arrested by FSARS operatives who also collected the money he gave him for tiles.

Investigations revealed that Daisi was merely lying. Confronted with the facts, Daisi was said to have confessed and gave reasons why he made the false allegation against FSARS operatives.

In his confessions, he said:

“I am sorry I lied. I wanted to use the N5,000 and N600 he (Ogundele) gave me to solve personal problems.

I wanted to buy tile tools and had been looking for money. I thought that if I lied to him that FSARS men arrested me and collected the money, he would be afraid and forget about it.”

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