Mr Oyewale said the suspects allegedly sent fake transaction credit alerts to their victims in Maiduguri.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has warned banks and point of sale (PoS) operators to refrain from disrupting the distribution of naira notes.
The items include 500 bags of fertilisers, 10 tricycles, 55 water pumps, 115 knapsack sprayers, five fufu pounders, 50 seed planters and five rice milling machines.
Mr Madubuko, the leader of the AIRS revenue mobilisation team, said the state was making just about ₦2 billion monthly out of the ₦4 billion potential profile.
The dismissed sergeant had collected his victim’s phone and used a POS operator to transfer N98,000 out of the N100,000 in his bank account.
Okada riders in the Kubwa area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are rejecting the new naira notes over alleged counterfeits in circulation.
He said since the launch of the eNaira, the initiative has continued to modify its features to make it more accessible to a wider range of users.
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“I have been coming here to sell cow meat on a daily basis, but the turnout has not been encouraging, so I decided to stay at home for some days.”
That was what led to the late deployment of materials to the various polling units.