Three students, Fisayo Adetoro a 300 level student of Joseph Ayodele
Babalola University, (JABU) in Ikeji Arakeji, Osun state, Emmanuel
Omole and Wale Ayeni who are both students of the Federal
University
of Technology Akure, (FUTA) all pictured above, have been arrested
by
the Ondo state police command for engaging in internet fraud.
Announcing their arrest, the Ondo state police spokesperson,
Oluwole
Ogodo in a statement released yesterday June 10th, said the 3
undergraduate students were arrested at “Ilesha Garage and Delta
Hotel”
in Akure following intelligence report.
Read statement below:-
“Through online transactions, the syndicate had, sometime in April
2015,
requested six i-phones valued at Nine Hundred and Eighty Four
Thousand Naira (N984,000:00k) from Ajiboye Adeyinka Kabir of No.
3,
Oyekunle Street, Ajegunle, Lagos State.
“Ajiboye brought the six i-phones to Akure as requested by the
syndicate
on 10/5/2015. On arrival at Ondo garage Akure, the three fraudsters
took
him in their operational vehicle, a Nissan Armanda Jeep with
Registration Number JS-28-EKY, and pretended to be heading for
Government House, Akure.
On the way, they made a detour to Fiwasaye-Ijapo Road, Akure
where
they forcefully took the I-phones from Ajiboye, and pushed him out
of
the vehicle in motion. Ajiboye sustained various degrees of injuries
and
was rushed by Policemen at Ijapo Division to the Police Clinic, Akure
for immediate medical attention.
On 25/5/2015, the syndicate also contacted one Akinola Segun of No.
29/31 Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos, and placed an order for another
set of
five I-phones valued at Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira
(N820,000:00k).
They again lied that they were lecturers at the Elizade University,
Ilara-
Mokin. On arrival in Akure on 25/5/2015 at about 16:30hrs, they
conveyed Akinola in their operational jeep to a hotel on Ondo Road,
Akure.
The three then drugged his food with swinol tablets and made away
with
the five I-phones.
The syndicate however ran out of luck on 2/6/2015 when they
unknowingly contacted the same Akinola Segun on a different
website
and ordered five I-phones, and deceitfully presented themselves as
lecturers from the College of Agriculture, Akure.
Akinola Segun immediately contacted the Akure Area Command’s
office
where the Area Commander, ACP.
Edward Ajogun psc, with his team of detectives employed
professional
tactics that lead to their arrest of the three students.”
Emmanuel Omole and Wale Ayeni have been expelled from their
school.
Items recovered from them after their arrest includes a Nissan
Armanda
Jeep, with Registration Number JS-28-EKY, valued at Two Million,
Five
Hundred Thousand Naira.
Three 16GB I-phones, (ii) one HTC phone, (iii) one Blackberry Q10,
(iv)
one Techno phone, (v) Gold rings, (vi) Gold necklace and (vii) Gold
ear
ring, all valued at Six Hundred and Sixty Seven Thousand Naira.
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