The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Borno State command, has paraded four suspects who specialise in defrauding members of the public disguising as World Bank officials.
It also paraded other suspects for committing various other crimes ranging from vandalism, theft, phone snatching, and illicit drug dealing in Maiduguri, the state capital.
Addressing journalists on Tuesday at the headquarters of the command, the state Commandant, Mr Musa Farouk, said the suspects, Mamman Sanusi, Ahmed Mohammed, Ibrahim Ali, and Ibrahim Bukar printed fake federal government Micro-Small Enterprise Survival Fund tokens and collected N500 from each member of the community.
Farouk added that items recovered from the suspects included N150,000 cash, World Bank officiating tags, MSME Survival Fund token, computer, printer, and laminating machine.
Two of the suspects, Ibrahim Ali and Bukar Ibrahim, confessed to the crime, saying that they could not remember the number of people they had swindled.
The NSCDC Commandant also handed over a drug dealer, Abdullahi Mohammed, alongside the exhibit of 48 wraps of Indian hemp to officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for prosecution.
Farouq called on members of the public to continue to cooperate with the corps and other security agencies to rid the society of all forms of criminal activities.