Fashola, yesterday raised alarm that his phone number has been hacked by some fraudsters to extort money from members of the state cabinet and permanent secretary. He said the fraudsters had opened an account in Skye Bank and used his phone number to send text messages to members of his cabinet to pay some specified amount of money into it. “I must use this opportunity to appeal to all citizens and all of those who have received text messages purportedly being sent in my name. Apparently my phone has been cloned by some internet fraudsters, they sent messages round to my commissioners and permanent secretaries asking them to come and pay money into one Skye Bank account. “Please ignore those messages, they are not from us.

It apparently shows the desperation to make money by all means.

These are the small crimes, those are the corrupt tendencies that we must all as a nation put to bed.

They are the ones that lead to the bigger crimes. If we focus our attention on the bigger crimes, we will lose the larger picture.

All of these speak to the need for increasing compliance with law and order in every state, every local government, every ward, every home.

All of us must rise up and reclaim our country back from this lawlessness.”

Fashola bemoaned the development, adding that making money through cheap means could halt the nation’s value system .

gidson12: lies.....nobody cloned your number Oga fashola,

tpia@:
Hope they get busted.

would have said law enforcement should deposit some money there and wait for them to make a withdrawal.

but if they're internet fraudsters, a different means is needed to catch them.

gidson12: lies.....nobody cloned your number Oga fashola,

Biggyd2: But seriously, did any of those officials fall for the text? It will really be silly. I mean why will the governor send text to people working in an official capacity to pay money into "a certain account"?

gidson12: lies.....nobody cloned your number Oga fashola,

gboss4sure: fashola u dey craze, continue lieing.. U don use ur number do people yahoo yahoo cum de yarn nonsense

olaheavy:

If this is ivestiated properly we'll see that the Igbo miscreants are behind this insane crime. They have indeed become a menace to our Yoruba society! Also, it's their fellow Igbo compatriots who don't like all of Raji Fashola's reforms that will first accuse him of lying. Never do well clowns, leave our Yorubaland, now!

gboss4sure: fashola u dey craze, continue lieing.. U don use ur number do people yahoo yahoo cum de yarn nonsense

gidson12: lies.....nobody cloned your number Oga fashola,

stepo707: Who has fashola's number here?

Sijo01: Apprehending them wont be a difficult task...... The Bank should be inform about it, deposite some cash into the side account and wait for them to make the debit. Chikina!