More doubles in Nigeria
Maybe the idea of "stand ins" in Nigeria would be more believable if such deception was more common. Or less common? Or maybe if corruption in the Presidential complex were less credible?Nigeria's secret service arrest 'fake first lady'
A woman who used various false identities to gain access to Nigeria's presidential complex to allegedly run business scams has been arrested.
The secret service said Amina Mohammed initially posed as Kogi state's first lady to gain entry to the presidential villa in the capital, Abuja.
She then allegedly invited people to the villa making them believe it was at the invitation of the president's wife.
Peter Afunanya, a spokesman for Nigeria's domestic spy agency, known as the Department of State Security (DSS), told reporters the scandal took place while First Lady Aisha Buhari was out of the country in November 2017.
Wealthy businessman Alexander Chika Okafor, invited to the the presidential villa by Ms Mohammed, accused her of defrauding him of 150m naira ($414,000, £323,000) over a property deal in the main city, Lagos, the secret service spokesman said…
The BBC's Ishaq Khalid in Abuja says the security breach is shocking as the presidential complex, known as Aso Rock, is well guarded by the DSS and police officers.
All staff working there have to have passes, that include biometric data, and all visitors need to be signed in, he says…
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