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The police in Abuja have arrested 3 suspected fraudsters, who held a businessman hostage at Durumi, Area One, seized his property documents and forced him to sign a bank cheque for N8,050,000.

The gang also cashed three additional cheques totaling N450,000 from the bank account of the victim before their operation was foiled by the police, who responded to a distress call from residents.

The suspects, Okechukwu Emeka (39), Ugorji Maranatha (37) and Momoh Jimoh were arrested.

The businessman, identified as Mr. Efulu, had advertised online that a duplex at Prince and Princess Estate in Abuja, was for sale for N160million.

He subsequently got a phone call from Emeka, who expressed interest in the property, but the duo reportedly settled for N140m.

Emeka invited Efulu to his residence at Durumi for finalisation of the transaction, but unknown to the latter, Emeka was nursing a plan to dispossess him of his property as well as the money.

Mr Efulu told Punch that Emeka offered to pay in dollars, but he declined saying he preferred naira.

According to him, he sat in Emeka’s living room expecting the money, two men emerged from another room, held him down and handcuffed his hands and chained his legs.

“Emeka then forced me at gunpoint to sign three cheques for N450,000 which he asked his accomplices to go and cash. He also directed them to take my car to a hidden location; they seized my phones and deleted all my contacts, text messages, Whatsapp chats, pictures and other things; Emeka also forced me to write another cheque for N8.050 million,” the traumatised victim explained.

Efulu narrated that he was kept in a room, adding that he pulled down the window blind, stretched out one of his hands through the burglary-proof and shouted for help.

“When Emeka heard my shout, he rushed to the room, but I had locked the door. But he came into the room through the ceiling and I fought him with all my strength. When he observed that he could not overpower me, he bit me in the back and managed to escape,” he said, adding that the police showed up shortly after and rescued him.

Efulu observed that he would have been killed by the gang, but for the money in his account, which they wanted to withdraw. He noted that they needed him to be alive to confirm the withdrawal from the bank.

But Emeka, who claimed to be a crude oil dealer, stated that he paid $303,000 to Efulu for his property at N372 exchange rate, adding that they had problems because he refused to leave after collecting the money.

He explained that the N8.050 cheque was the discount he negotiated with Efulu, stressing that he asked his friends to handcuff the property owner “because I felt threatened by his continued stay in my house for over four hours.”

Asked how he got the pump action rifle and the handcuffs he used to subdue Efulu, Emeka said he bought it from a friend, a policeman.

He said, “I didn’t plan to hurt him, if I had any evil intention, I wouldn’t have invited him to my house. I paid him $303,000 for the property and he gave the money to his agent, one Mr. Joshua who went out to a bureau de change operator to check whether it’s genuine, but the mistake I made was using the handcuffs on him.”

Maranatha, who described himself as a security consultant, stated that Emeka directed them to put the handcuffs on Efulu because he was owing him, adding that he promised to release him once he settled the debt.

“He invited us to his house and told us that we would help him to put handcuffs on a man who was owing him, so when we got to his house, he asked us to wait in the children’s room; he later asked us to hold down the man and we handcuffed his hands and chained his legs,” he admitted.

The suspect stated that Emeka directed them to cash four cheques, but they could only cash three for N450,000.

The third suspect, Jimoh, corroborated Maranatha, adding that they were arrested by the police as they were coming back from the bank with the money.

The police have said they would be charged to court soon.




http://www..ng/2016/08/13/fraudsters-kidnapped-businessman-force-sign-n8m-cheque-photo/

Clinton9000:
Nothing like Niger Deltans dressing ok...you yoruba and division. Joseph Yobo is from Igbo heritage part of Ogoni, he speaks Igbo dialect understood by Igbos and her wife Adaeze. Of course Easterners people dressing are gorgeous even the colonial whites talked about it, particularly Igbo combination of red hat and red necklace and band. Not like yoruba and hausas-Fulani that have zero sense of color combination. Dress like uncivilized people. For your information, Ijaws, Abiriba people in Abia and Ibibios also dress like that with the hat. We are One Eastern people before the division. Yoruba stop dividing yoruba. Yoruba I say... stop dividing us. Yoruba I say...leave us alone yoruba.

I hate these guys die. any of you guys drinking and winning in Yorubaland and causing the downfall of Yorubas will die miserable deaths.

What have we (Yorubas) done to warrant these insults from these locals that live inside mud tattered swampy house?

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The ineffectual Buffon a youth when he soiled his hands in corruption and tagged stealing as no corruption. Another youth coming will steal Nigeria and call it sense.

9jii:
May God continue to Help this government.

The Lord will also send help to you in Jesus name. Those who seek the good of Jerusalem will receive good things and also those who pray for Jerusalem will also be prayed for.

Igbo appearing nude in 1930?

He is doing it for his fatherland, so Eto, Drogba and others have done same even C. Ronaldo for Portugal.

It is no news.

tempest01:
See this one....

Doing what for his fatherland?

There is a budget for these things, what happens to the budget? Monkey go dey work baboon go dey chop.

Why don't you empty your account for your father land. Rubbish.

What is the fuse about what I wrote here? I don't owe anyone apology for this comment. Nigeria made Mikel and he is giving back to the country. Other stars have done same to their fatherland. Some people just hate Nigeria for a futile agitation for a country that may never be. We have no other country than Nigeria and I want to let you guys know that, there is no amount of hatred or curse you place upon Nigeria that you will not be a partaker. What have I said to warrant some guys saying rubbish or bad belly?
Mikel has not done enough and will still do more.

http://www.flexygist.com/2016/08/12/footballer-asisat-oshoala-donates-football-kits-to-former-grassroots-team-and-schools-in-lagos/

Keneking:
Health Inspectors on their normal Thursday environmental routine

Next questions are:

1. What happens to night business in this locality?
2. What happens to the income generated by Local government in this area?
3. What happens to the economic livelihood of those to be affected due to high cost of leasing commercial space?
4. How does the government improve the welfare of the citizens?

Nonsense action

Your brothers coming from the creeks hiding in the shanties will no longer unleash violence on innocent residents in Lagos.

Note: Lagos is not home for criminals.

cockoduck:
Look, lets get this straight, that woman will never be arrested in the US as far as Obama is POTUS, lets face it, Obama is Buhari's tight friend, he actually made Buhari president of Nigeria, he has several times said buhari is do a good job, in what exacly is Buhari doing a good job? I seriously don't know, maybe in running Nigeria down, there is absolutely no way the FBI can arrest aishaharliburton with that crooked black man in the white house, If it were Donald Trump, then I would have believed that viper's hands are clean, if you doubt me that Buhari is obama's agent, then how come obama wants to destabilize turkey and transferred the money to the tune of $2 Billion through Nigeria, and don't tell me Buhari is not aware that amount passing by his country.

The hatred you have for Buhari will kill you before his tenure expires. Why?

Aisha cannot go to America, she is there and you are still spooling trash.

But come o, are these guys from poor homes mad? why the wahala about Aisha in the US?.

Please stop this nonsense. whose concern is this?

IPOB and IPOD are propagandists. They are 5 & 6 in propaganda.

Proudly Yoruba, Omo Yoruba ni mi o.

Boko Haram in the making.

Toluwani113:
[size=21]One bottle of ...... For the guy above me.
O boy! I expected to see a kingpin not HUNGRYPIN
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Until the guy waste your life....., then you will know he is a kingpin.

thewarrior72:
Buhari has restrategised his jihadist army aka BOKO HARAM

No-sense talks

JESUSBOIY:
This one they say stone free , you sure say sand no full inside




Mama happy rice
what of Papa happy rice







Buhari is working indeed

Child of hate, they are not children of Osu and can't lie not unlike you guys that have thrown sanity, dignity, honestly and truth to the dogs. You guys can kill your mothers for money.

IPOB and lies are 5&6. Where did you get that? Useless animal.

Na today?

Is it because of economic situation in Nigeria that caused people traveling to Europe? I hate these IPOB saying nonsense on Nairaland every second.
What about the Benin ladies traveling to Italy? Now that data is cheap, some people can be politicing every topic on Nairaland.

nonsense

Those flat head morons are tribalists. Today marks 60 years of the results of their tribalism and resultant genocide in the hands of their Lord, Northern Oligarchy.

They are preparing to be wasted again because there is a cause in place on their tribe after reaching certain population, the cause manifests.

Little did we realise that ineffectual buffoon did not have Sw person among the top 10 in his cabinet and some idiots want to be casigating PMB for playing tribal politics. God bless PMB/PYO.

savio93:
Nice one.... Oya we Don hear.... Hope APC. and Zombies would admit the truth as spoken by PDP

OBJ started the project

idris4r83:
Issis are not muslims

Make we hear word jare, what is fathwa? I hate to believe, what is jihad? Go and sit down. 70 % of the world's problems are caused by Islam. ISIS are not muslims but Muslims are ISIS.

englishmart:
make una use go collect money from UBA na

Bad belle, IPOB or IPOD, Olosho omo Oloshi.

lepasharon:
Mary, because she cheated on her husband and made a religion out of it.

I pray you will not die an unbeliever. If you are Moslem, your religion confirm her virginity and so the BIBLE.

Joshua, A man of God that destroyed the Prophets of Baal by commanding fire from heaven.

A great exploit. A man my G.O. DR D.K. Olukoya is emulating.

Wailers, sons and daughters of damnation will not see this.

sammydemperor:
smh...

is it that we lack understanding or the will power to make effective change

For God sakes who builds a 1125 MW plant with $1.75 billion?

You guys may see it as progress, but damn how much do you really know about power generation, its not about the number of stations, rather the capacity. These plants will not be able to deliver up to 45% of their rated capacity to the Grid...

the largest dam in world was built at a cost of $22.5 billion and it generates 22,500 MW of electricity, spare me all the bullshit of littering the whole country with mini-power plants...

build something tangible, power generation is not rocket science all it takes is just some level of responsiveness to the plight of your people

this is how they will keep on taking us for granted, if we just take anything they bring to our table without us questioning them

so much for change...

Mr man, what do you know about Electricity, generation, installation and distribution. If it is so easy, why is any of your family not known in this area? Please stop this your nonsense.

You are a liar, this has been for over some weeks now.

Nonsense post

Seeking relevance

I predicted this in 1999 that, these Gals will one day roam the street unclad.

Is this not happening?