Lady Swindled N1.3m In Bid For Spiritual Powers To Become Rich

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A lady, Imoleayo Ashade, has been duped after she reportedly gave the sum of N1.3m to some suspected fraudsters in order to fortify her with spiritual powers, which will enable her to become rich in Ogun State.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that they obtained the money and gave her a black soap which she had to bath with but it did not work.
Consequently, she reported the alleged fraud to the Police in Ogun State.
Ashade told the Police that she must have been hypnotised by the men, who she said lured her to their hideout in their false attempt to help her become rich. This was after the lady had helped the suspects in securing a place to sleep one night.

“I think I was hypnotized, because at first, I believed everything they said. They told me to bring my fiance so that, we can both be empowered spiritually.”
“When we went there, they gave us black soap to bath with so that money can come thereafter but they made us swear an oath that we will not tell anybody.”
“I was using the soap with my fiancé before he went to NYSC camp. I suddenly regained consciousness one day and I immediately informed the OPC members in our area, who invaded their secret hideout with the Police,” Ashade was quoted as saying.

Meanwhile, the Police have arrested the suspects, who were identified as Salau Taiwo, Ifakunle Adeyemi, Tajudeen Jimoh and Adebayo Akeem.
They were arrested at their shrine in the Ijagun area of Ijebu Ode.

At the shrine, a box containing various denominations of fake currencies, charms and a cash of N1,310,000 allegedly collected from Ashade were recovered by the Police.

The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Ajogun, while on a visit to the crime scene, disclosed that the arrest was made by the Awa-Ijebu Police Division with the support of OPC and vigilantes in the area.

CP Ajogun assured that the suspects will be prosecuted as soon as investigations are concluded for the alleged offence, which attracts several years of imprisonment if they are tried and found guilty before the Court.