{"id":76738,"date":"2025-10-15T16:22:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76738"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:22:34","slug":"dss-arrests-two-ex-operatives-for-impersonation-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/15\/dss-arrests-two-ex-operatives-for-impersonation-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"DSS Arrests Two Ex-Operatives for Impersonation, Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/p>\n<p>The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested two dismissed officers, Barry Donald and Victor Onyedikachi Godwin, for impersonation and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, the DSS said the former operatives, earlier declared wanted, were caught posing as active officers to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>The Service said both men had been dismissed for misconduct and would be prosecuted, adding that it plans to publish names of other dismissed personnel to prevent further impersonation.<\/p>\n<p>The DSS urged citizens to verify any dealings with its officials through official channels and report suspicious activities to security authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested two dismissed officers, Barry Donald and Victor Onyedikachi Godwin, for impersonation and fraud. In a statement on Wednesday, the DSS said the former operatives, earlier declared wanted, were caught posing as active officers to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians. The Service said both men had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76740,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76738\/revisions\/76740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}