Mother of 4 Arrested For Alleged Duping Paris-Based Facebook Lover N5m

PAUL IYIOGHOJIE

Aishat Akintunde, 33, a single mother of four and resident of Egbado Road, Dalemo in Alakuko area of Lagos has been arrested for allegedly defrauding her Facebook lover of money and properties valued at about N5 million.

It was gathered that the suspect from Abeokuta, Ogun State allegedly succeeded in defrauding her Paris, France-based victim, Ayobami Adeniyi after she promised to marry him and also help him purchase a filling station in Nigeria.

A police source alleged that trouble started for the suspect when the DCP in charge of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, Lagos, Ibrahim Kaoje dispatched a team led by DSP Olaniyi Festus to Sango Ota Area of Ogun State to arrest a suspected female smuggler and bring her to the station following the tip-off that she sold an unregistered Renault bus with properties inside all valued at about N2.5 million for just N1 million.

During the investigation, Akintunde alledgely told the police that she was not a smuggler that it was her France-based Facebook lover who shipped the bus for her to sell. And to confirm the veracity of her claims, the police contacted the shipper of the bus who later turn out to be Ayobami Adeniyi.

Adeniyi reportedly told the police on the phone to arrest the woman and keep her in detention that he was on his way to Nigeria.

It was gathered that within the next two days, Adeniyi arrived Nigeria and went straight to the FSARS office in Lagos to narrate what happen between him and the suspect.

Adeniyi from Oyo State, stated that he met the suspect Akintunde on the Facebook in November 2016 and in the cause of their discussion, she told him that she was a divorcee and that if he was ready for a relationship he should send her money to rent an accommodation and he later sent her the sum of N100, 000 because he claimed to be desperately in need of a wife, particularly a Yoruba.

“In February 2017, the suspect told me that her mother was a big time oil dealer in Nigeria managing three filing stations. She later told me that her mother was about to sell off one of the filing station for N4 million and she advice me to purchase the station so that any time I return to Nigeria to settle down with her, I would have investment to fall back on,” Adeniyi claimed.

He continued, “She sent three pictures of the three filing stations to me to convince me. I accepted her advice thinking that she was a honest woman who would be a good house wife. Before I started investing in the filing station, I requested to speak with her mother to confirm her claims and her mother equally confirm through phone call that she was an oil dealer operating three filing stations in Nigeria and that she was about to sell one of the station for N4 million.

“Following her mother’s confirmation, I told the suspect to open an account in her name for me to be transferring money into it till the N4 million is completed to pay for the filing station. I transferred the sum of N750,000, N650,000, 250,000 and N200, 000 in that order into her account. I equally sold my Peugeot car in Nigeria for N1 million and remitted the money into her account.

The victim also claimed that he shipped a Renault bus with goods inside valued at about N2,5 million to her to sell and pay for the filing station.

“But I was surprised to hear that she did not buy any filing station, but instead converted all my money to her personal use and plunge me into debt. I am now appealing to the Nigerian Police to help me recover my money from the suspects,” Adeniyi appealed.

In her defence, Akintude allegedly admitted receiving only the sum of N1.5 million cash from the complainant and not N5 million as he was claiming and also a bus which she sold for N1 million and used the proceed to buy an uncompleted building at Ijoko area of Sango Otta, Ogun State.

Meanwhile, a police source told our correspondent that the suspect will be charge to court after the conclusion of investigation.