By Amos Aar
A former councillor representing Baa Council Ward in Makurdi local government area of Benue State, Hon. Daniel Uchou who lives opposite Welfare Quarters, Makurdi has been nabbed for the second time for allegedly duping people to influence their employment with the Benue State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).
Hon. Uchou, who has been detained since last week at the Police State Command, Makurdi was arrested before in 2021 for allegedly committing the same crime and was discharged.
According to police authorities, the former councillor allegedly scammed the unsuspecting job seekers of about three hundred thousand naira (N300,000.00) and had refunded about two hundred thousand naira (N200,000.00) as at the time National Record correspondent visited the state command on Monday, 30th May, 2021.
They added that the fraud victims confirmed to them through phone calls that the suspect contacted the applicants via the phone numbers they wrote on their application forms and threatened to remove their names if they did not pay the sum of N40,000 each.
The suspect, Uchou while confessing to the crime, said was reported to have defrauded 11 applicants and claimed that he was able to refund to ten of them through the police officer in charge of the case. He was said to have pleaded for forgiveness and attributed his perpetual fraud to hardship.
Police authorities however insisted that he will be charged to court this time around since he has remained unrepentant.
