Ogun State Police Command has arrested a suspected internet fraudster, who impersonated the
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Facebook and defrauded
two Nigerian ladies based in the United States of America of
various sums of money.
The suspect Abiodun Joseph, 26, was arrested last Wednesday, April 19,
at Ilese in Ijebu North East Local Council of the state.
According to
the police, the suspect had allegedly obtained the sum of N600,000
illegally through money transfer.
While parading the suspect along with three other suspected armed
robbers and kidnappers at the state’s command headquarters in Eleweran,
Abeokuta, the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed
Iliyasu, said Joseph had been using his Facebook and Whatsapp accounts
to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.
“On interrogation, he owned up to the crime and confessed that he has duped some people to the tune of N600,000,” he said.
Joseph, who admitted to committing the crime, said he opened the
Facebook account October last year, purposely to defraud people. He said
he uploaded Ooni’s pictures from the Internet and used them
on his Facebook account and in no time, people mostly ladies began to
send him requests, thinking he is the monarch.
Joseph revealed that many ladies sent requests to him that they
wanted to be his ‘Oloris’ (wives) thinking he was genuine and this was
how he was able to defraud some of them.
“In our chats, I told them that they had to pay some money if they
were really interested in being my Olori. Two of them based in the
United States of America sent N600,000 to me through money transfer. One
sent N350,000 and the second one sent N250,000.”
Joseph, however, said one of ladies among the numerous ladies who
wanted to be ‘Olori’ had demanded that he buy her a house worth N45
million, but he told her that she had to pay N5 million out of the
amount and he would make up the balance for her.
He was still waiting for that N5 million last Wednesday when the police
swooped on his residence and arrested him. Joseph said he regretted his
action and asked for forgiveness of Oba Ogunwusi.
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