The Nigerian Navy has arrested Yakubu Yussuf, 22 and Shehu Alhassan, 22 both from Kano State for using the same result with the same name to gain admission into the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School, Onne, on June 12, 2014.
The two young Nigerians caught in act of impersonation were paraded by the Nigeria Navy at the Old GRA Police Station, Forces Avenue Port Harcourt, were they had been transferred for prosecution.
According to the P.R.O of the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School, Segun Adebayo, both men who hail from Kano State were found to be using same result with same name to join the batch 23 trainees during the verification exercise.
He revealed that the fraud came to light when Yakubu Yussuf and Shehu Alhassan, the alleged owner of the NECO result both came for the exercise.
One of the suspects admitted that he indeed committed the crime but called it a mistake.
The Police has, however, vowed to use their case as a lesson to serve as a deterrent.
In times of grave security concerns in the country, the Navy noted that this was a call to all security agencies to close their ranks to check possible infiltrators.
