Three students, Fisayo Adetoro a 300 level student of Joseph
Ayodele Babalola University, (JABU) in Ikeji Arakeji, Osun
state, Emmanuel Omole and Wale Ayeni who are both
students of the Federal University of Technology Akure,
(FUTA) all pictured above, have been arrested by the Ondo
state police command for engaging in internet fraud.
Announcing their arrest, the Ondo state police spokesperson,
Oluwole Ogodo in a statement released yesterday June 10th,
said the 3 undergraduate students were arrested at "Ilesha
Garage and Delta Hotel" in Akure following intelligence report.
The statement in part reads
"Through online transactions, the syndicate had,
sometime in April 2015, requested six i-phones valued
at Nine Hundred and Eighty Four Thousand Naira
(N984,000:00k) from Ajiboye Adeyinka Kabir of No. 3,
Oyekunle Street, Ajegunle, Lagos State. "Ajiboye
brought the six i-phones to Akure as requested by the
syndicate on 10/5/2015. On arrival at Ondo garage
Akure, the three fraudsters took him in their operational
vehicle, a Nissan Armanda Jeep with Registration
Number JS-28-EKY, and pretended to be heading for
Government House, Akure. On the way, they made a
detour to Fiwasaye-Ijapo Road, Akure where they
forcefully took the I-phones from Ajiboye, and pushed
him out of the vehicle in motion. Ajiboye sustained
various degrees of injuries and was rushed by
Policemen at Ijapo Division to the Police Clinic, Akure
for immediate medical attention. On 25/5/2015, the
syndicate also contacted one Akinola Segun of No.
29/31 Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos, and placed an order
for another set of five I-phones valued at Eight
Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira (N820,000:00k).
They again lied that they were lecturers at the Elizade
University, Ilara-Mokin. On arrival in Akure on
25/5/2015 at about 16:30hrs, they conveyed Akinola in
their operational jeep to a hotel on Ondo Road, Akure.
The three then drugged his food with swinol tablets
and made away with the five I-phones. The syndicate
however ran out of luck on 2/6/2015 when they
unknowingly contacted the same Akinola Segun on a
different website and ordered five I-phones, and
deceitfully presented themselves as lecturers from the
College of Agriculture, Akure. Akinola Segun
immediately contacted the Akure Area Command’s
office where the Area Commander, ACP. Edward Ajogun
psc, with his team of detectives employed professional
tactics that lead to their arrest of the three students.”
Emmanuel Omole and Wale Ayeni have been expelled
from their school. Items recovered from them after
their arrest includes a Nissan Armanda Jeep, with
Registration Number JS-28-EKY, valued at Two Million,
Five Hundred Thousand Naira. Three 16GB I-phones,
(ii) one HTC phone, (iii) one Blackberry Q10, (iv) one
Techno phone, (v) Gold rings, (vi) Gold necklace and
(vii) Gold ear ring, all valued at Six Hundred and Sixty
Seven Thousand Naira.