The Department of State Services (DSS) in Taraba State yesterday paraded 45-year-old Ishaya Adamu for parading himself as an assistant director in the service and defrauding members of the public.
The State Director of the service, Bashir Abubakar, who was represented at a press briefing in Jalingo by his deputy, Akintola Balogun, disclosed that the man was arrested in a hotel in Jalingo where he was staying with his purported wife. He said Ishaya Adamu, who hails from Lafia in Lamurde Local Government Area of Adamawa State, was released from prison in December last year after serving a three year jail term for the same offence.
According to the director, Adamu after the jail term continued parading himself and duping unsuspected members of the public in Gombe, Adamawa and Taraba states.
He revealed that Adamu lied to his wife that he was transferred to Nasarawa State from Gombe.
One of his latest victims was a 50-year-old mother of four children whom he met in Gombe and proposed to marry her.
Ishaya Adamu, according to the director, is a Christian but claimed to have converted to Islam and now bears Shuaibu Adamu in order to fulfill one of the conditions for marrying the woman.
The man, according to the director, took away several belongings of the woman which are yet to be recovered.
Adamu, who confessed to the crime, said he had three children from different women and would repent and stop committing crime.
