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The police in Lagos State have arrested a dismissed Nigerian Naval officer for allegedly impersonating a serving military officer and assaulting residents.
The unnamed suspect was said to have been apprehended while he and his boys were beating a hotel worker.
Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin said “The job was contracted to him by one of the hotel’s customers who had refused to stop smoking in a ‘no smoking’ area of the hotel.
“He charges N20,000 to bring his boys to beat up anybody for his clients Hundeyin was quoted by the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Lagos.
“The suspect has been dismissed since 2000, but still parades himself as a naval officer,’’ Hundeyin said.
He noted that the suspect would soon be arraigned.
