Thirty -year Oluwole Falaseye is selling clothes
around Agbara in Lagos. But, on facebook, he claims to be Nipheme Ajanaku,
He poses on the social
media as Abuja-based bank manager, working with one of the new generation
banks.
According to him,
after familiarising himself with young
ladies through regular chatting, he would book for a meeting in a hotel in
Festac Town, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State.
This was how he hooked
up with a lady identified simply as Mercy and invited her for a birthday party
in Opera Hotel at Rasaq Junction, Festac Town, last Friday.
However, Mercy, a
student of Polymer Engineering at Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, had an
engagement outside Lagos and sent her cousin, Tinuke, who is also an
undergraduate of Public Administration at The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State,
to represent her.
Victim’s account
Narrating what
transpired at the hotel, Atinuke said: “While at the hotel room, he demanded
for my ATM pin, saying he wanted to transfer N30, 000 into my account. I was
initially skeptical, but gave him because he said he was a bank manager and
that his boss owned the hotel.
“He offered me an
alcoholic drink, but I declined because I don’t take alcoholic drinks. He
offered me another, saying it was not alcoholic. I took it. That was all I
could remember until I woke up to discover he raped me.
“I was bitter, because
he is not my boyfriend and I never bargained for such violation. He apologised
and we went downstairs for the supposed birthday. He later told me he was going
upstairs to see his boss.
“I waited endlessly
without seeing him. When I went to the room, I met the door opened, with the
key still with me. I was shocked. “I discovered that my phones, a Samsung
Galaxy S6 and another small phone, my necklace, ATM card and my wristwatch were
gone.
I went downstairs to
inform the receptionists about the development and also asked if they saw him
leaving. “They said they do not keep tab on their customers. I raised an alarm
which attracted people.”
She claimed that the suspect withdrew N172,
000 from her account. When news reached Mercy, the girls planted a lady, who
reached the suspect on Facebook, in the process of which he booked an
appointment with her at Festac, only to be arrested by policemen.
Suspect’s account
Falaseye, the suspect
said on Wednesday that lack of funds to pay for his three-year-old baby’s
medical bill led him into such dubious acts. Falaseye, a secondary school
drop-out, said: “This is my first time of doing this.
I sell shoes and suits
and I travel round Nigeria to buy and sell. But business has been bad and I
didn’t have anybody to ask for money to foot my three-year-old baby’s hospital
bill.
“So I just figured out
that I could meet the girl I have been chatting with and take her phone to
sell. Yes I stole her items. “I told her to wait in the bar, while I went to
the room, took her items and fled. I sold her phone for N20, 000.”
The suspect, according
to Lagos State Commissioner for Police, Fatai
Owoseni, would be charged to court soon, even as he warned Lagosians to be
wary of his likes.
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