SAN pays primary sch. cert
holder N2.5m for fake FG job
Category: News Published on Wednesday, 19 November 2014
05:00 Written by Nurudeen Oyewole, Lagos
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Dr Aliyu Salimon
yesterday told a Lagos High Court in Ikeja that a 53-year old
primary school certificate holder, Moses Olayemi, deceived him
into paying N2.5 million to get him a federal government job.
At a proceeding presided over by Justice Lawal Akapo, Dr
Salimon narrated how he was persuaded to pay the money
into Olayemi’s bank account to get the job only for him to
realise later that he was duped.
“I was on my way to Ibadan from Ilorin for an INEC case when
I received a call from someone who claimed to be the
chairman of a committee compiling the list of people to be
given federal government appointments. He asked me to send
my CV, which I did from a nearby cyber cafe. He then asked
me to pay N150,000 for him to get a security report on me,”
the SAN said.
The senior lawyer said after several conversations on phone,
he sent N2.5 million to an account belonging to one Moses
Babatunde on advice from Olayemi, believing it would help
him get the job.
“It was after I paid the money that I was told that the job had
been given to someone else,” he said.
In his submission, the accused, Moses Olayemi, denied the
allegation, saying he never collected any money from Dr
Salimon. Olayemi is charged with conspiracy to commit felony
for allegedly defrauding the lawyer under the pretext of
conducting a National Assembly screening for a federal
government appointment. He was denied bail by Justice Akapo
on the ground that he is a convicted criminal who jumped bail
in Kano State and fled to Lagos.
“The accused is not a first time offender. He jumped bail in
Kano State and took flight to Lagos State to commit another
offence. The application for bail is hereby denied based on the
antecedents of the accused,” Justice Akapo said. The matter
was adjourned to January 26, 27 and 28, 2015 for trial.
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