BY IFEYINWA OBI The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a
couple, Mr. Danladi Wushishi, and Mrs.Ojuolape
Wushishi, for allegedly duping unsuspecting victims to
the tune of N20 million in fake Customs auction sales
in Lagos. Ojuolape was arrested on Wednesday, June 18, at
Odeogbolu Street, Ijegun while her husband who
claimed to be a freight forwarder practicing at Tin Can
Island Port Complex, Danladi, was apprehended at
Allen Avenue on Friday, June 25. It was gathered that the couple were arrested after a
petition to the Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko,
from one of the victims, Mrs. Chinyere Uzorchukwu,
who was allegedly duped by the couple to the tune of
N5 million. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad operatives had
subsequently gone on the trail of the couple and
arrested them. The Wushishis had allegedly taken money from their
victims under the pretext that they had a container
load of goods meant for Customs auction sales at one
of the Customs commands in Lagos. It was further learnt that prior to the incident, the
couple normally took their victims to a fake
Customs’ warehouse in Ikorodu, Lagos, and showed
them containers which were sealed. However, after
payments had been made, the victims would wait
endlessly expecting their goods, which never came. Apart from Uzorchukwu, the police said the couple
had also duped one Nkechi Anokwuru of about N3.5
million and one Mr. Livinus of about N19 million in the
fake auction deals. Danladi, 46, who hails from Niger State, confessed that
he took the money from the victims without having
any goods anywhere. He said, “I am a businessman and I am also a freight
forwarder at the Tin Can Island, Lagos. I have been
doing this business for about eight years. The cargo in
question has an allocation paper that read clothes, but
when I got there, I saw that it only contained books.

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