Six impersonators nab by National Service Secretariat in Tamale

The Northern regional Secretariat of the Ghana National Service Scheme has arrested 6 people for impersonating in the ongoing registration of the national service in the Northern Regional Capital Tamale.

The 6 impersonators where arrested on different occasion when they were trying to register.

They have since been submitted to the Northern regional police command.

The suspects are made up of 2 ladies from the institute of Professional studies and the rest of them are purported to be students of the Tamale Polytechnic. 

During a hot chase arrest of one of the impersonator in the person of Jebuni Fuseini today near the regional library, was part of the fifth incident recorded by the Secretariat in the region.

The suspect with an ID of Tamale Polytechnic and an admission form bearing the name Jebuni Fuseini, and a second year student pursuing HND Statistics at the department of Applied Science claimed the document was forged by a friend in Accra who approached him to assist him to get the posting of the national service.

After paying 140 Ghana cedis his accomplish was able to forge the document for him with the registration number.

But after a thorough probing he admitted that he is a second year student of Tamale polytechnic pursuing HND marketing.

He said his act resulted due to financial difficulties to pay his school fees amounting to 500 Ghana cedis.

The Acting Public Relation Officer of the Northern region NSS and also the District Director of the service in the Nanumba South District, Joseph Kumah said the incident is one of the challenges confronting the secretariat across the country.

He said unscrupulous people hack into their system to impersonate. He revealed that last year alone they had 16 of such acts.

Mr. Joseph Kumah suspect some people might be behind the criminal act.

The Northern regional Director of NSS, Alhaji Shaibu Abiwu told Fiila News the suspects were arrested and handed over to the police but due to political pressures from politicians all have been released. When pursued to mention names, he was lip-tight. Tamale Polytechnic has however denied knowing such culprits.