fraudster dupes victim of N8m - Robbers snatch woman’s car, fling her baby into bush
Adelowo Oladipo, Lagos - updated: Tuesday 02-06-2009


[b]Mrs. Adebimpe Olupero
A female suspected fraudster, Mrs. Adebimpe Olupero, is now being held in one of the cells at the Police Special Fraud Unit, Milverton road, Ikoyi, Lagos State, for allegedly collecting N8 million from an unsuspecting victim.


Crime and Security investigation gathered, that the suspect was arrested following a petition against her by one Mrs. Sola Agoro, alleging that the suspect duped her of the said amount in two installments of N4 million each.


Crime and Security further gathered that before the long arm of the law caught up with Olupero, she had been using names and offices of top government functionaries both in Lagos and Ogun states, to swindle some unsuspecting members of the public, huge sums of money, promising them plump government unexisting contracts.


However, in an encounter with the Crime and Security last weekend in Lagos, the suspect confessed to the crime and claimed that the N8 million she collected from the petitioner was meant to facilitate the award of some undisclosed contracts.


She further disclosed that the contracts were to be facilitated from both the office of the commissioner for special duties in Lagos State and another one at the governor’s office, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Also, in an itnerview with the Crime and Security, the victim, Mrs. Sola Agoro, said after much pressure on the suspect that she allegedly informed her that she had sold the contracts which she collected from the two states to someone else.


“Thereafter, she promised to refund my money and she issued a cheque, valued at N31 million and upon presentation at her bank, it was turned back. And the bank officials said the account had been dormant for a long time,” said Mrs. Agoro.


Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Police Special Fraud Unit, Mr. Saba M. Ndagi, said that the suspect would soon be arrainged in court for obtaining money under false pretences and for issueing dishonoured cheque at the conclusion of police investigation into the matter.

MEANWHILE, the long arm of the law has caught up with two suspected dare devil robbers, Eyaro Ayodele and Auscar Akinsanya, who have been snatching exotic cars on Lekki–Ajah and Epe express roads.


Crime and Security investigation gathered at the weekend, that the trouble began for the suspected men of the underworld recently when they took off from Ajegunle area of Lagos state, chattered a commuter bus and headed towards Alpha Beach, on Lekki, Ajah road, where they hatched their plans to dispossess vehicle owners of their cars.


Crime and Security further learnt that the robbery gang, numbering about ten, out of which the two suspects whose ages were put at 24 and 20 years, were arrested, while the remaining eight others are now still at large.


Insider police sources at the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, Pant Street, Yaba, said the suspected car snatcher allegedly divided themselves into two on each side of the road, as soon as they emerged from their hideout on the fateful day and laid siege on Lekki-Ajah expressway, after which they started snatching cars, at gun point. The police sources who preferred anonymity, further disclosed that the gang succeeded in snatching four different luxury cars.


“Inside one of the cars, they met a few months old baby boy inside his mother’s car after it was snatched and the first suspect, Eyaro Ayodele, flung the baby out of the car into a nearby bush,” said the sources.


It further noted that the dastardly act of the robber was witnessed by a public spirited Nigerian, Alhaji Saka Elsin, who was said to be driving his car with some of his security personnel at the time the baby was thrown into the bush. Elesin, the Chief Executive Officer, Elesin Security Services, Limited, Lagos, was said to have instructed his security aides to give Eyaro a hot pursuit in his company’s patrol van.


In fact, the business man and his employees affected the arrest of the suspect, after which he handed him to the Police and upon interrogation, he mentioned the name of the second suspect, Akinsanya, as one of this brothers in crime,” recalled the police sources. Crime and Security checks further gathered that the baby had since been rescued by a combined team of police anti-robbery team and Elesin Security Services Ltd., and had been takenn to the hospital for treatment.


Alhaji Saka Elesin said “we joined the police in rescuing him and we took the baby to a private hospital in Lagos for treatment and he was discharged a few hours later.


Confirming the incident, the outgoing Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of SCID, Panti, Yaba, Mr, Nicholas Daru Nkedeme, in an interview with the Crime and Security, said the two suspects were now facing armed robbery and conspiracycharges at an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrate Court.

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These threads should be in the crime section. Fraud is not politics.

Aloy.Emeka:

These threads should be in the crime section. Fraud is not politics.