By Emmanuel Udom / Senior
Correspondent, Lagos
The Ogun State Police command on Monday dragged two suspected
fraudsters before a Chief Magistrate court in Ota, Ogun State for allegedly
duping 28 intending pilgrims to Mecca of N2.4 million.
Daily Independent gathered that the
suspects, Wasiu Adewale (53) and Jamiu Olaleye, (35) recently organized a
sponsorship seminar for the 28 intending pilgrims to the Holy land.
According to police sources at Ota
police station, the duo brainwashed the victims into believing that they know
what it takes to visit the Holy land.
Unknown to them, Adewale and
Olaleye, who were determined to swindle the victims, fixed a date and venue for
the purported seminar and the 28 intending pilgrims fell into the trap and were
duped.
A sum of N500, 000 was said to have
been collected from each of the 28 pilgrims, which amounted to about N2.4
million.
However, trouble came when one of
the intending pilgrims, identified by the police as Dauda Jimoh smelled a foul
play and subsequently reported the matter to the police.
Police detectives were said to have
ordered a female officer to trail and track down Adewale, who is alleged to be
very randy.
The planned paid off as the said
Adewale was lured into a guest house in the area by the female police officer,
who pretended she was interested in be-friending him.
Adewale and Olaleye were slammed
with a three-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence
by Chief Magistrate Court 11M sitting in Ota, Ogun state.
However, it was gathered that the
third accomplice is at large, but the police have vowed to arrest him.
The three- count charge, as
contained in charge sheet was that “Wasiu Adewale (m), Jamiu Olaleye (m) and
one other at large, between the month of July and September, 2014, at different
addresses at Sango-Ota, did conspire among yourself to commit felony to wit
obtaining money under false pretence and thereby committed an offence
punishable under section 516 of the Criminal Code Vol. 1, Revised Laws of Ogun
State of Nigeria, 2006.
Count II: “That you, Wasiu Adewale
(m), Jamiu Olaleye (m) and one other at large, in the afore-mentioned
Magisterial District, did tricked and received the sum of N2.4 million from Mr.
Dauda Jimoh (m) and 27 others under the pretence of sponsoring them to the Holy
land (Mecca) and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 419 (A)
of the Criminal Code, Revised Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria, 2006.
Count III: “That you, Wasiu Adewale
(m), Jamiu Olaleye (m) and one other at large, in the same months and place, in
the afore-mentioned Magisterial District, did fraudulently received and
converted to their own use the sum of N2.4 million, being property of Mr. Dauda
Jimoh and 27 others and thereby committed an offence punishable under section
390 (9) of the Criminal Code, Revised Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria, 2006.
The two accused persons pleaded not
guilty to the charges and were each granted bail in the sum of N500, 000, with
two sureties who must be senior civil servants in the state.
However, Chief Magistrate (Mrs.) A.
O. Abimbola adjourned the case till December 3, 2014 for further hearing, while
the suspects were ordered to be remanded in prison.
Source: www.dailyindependentng.com
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