Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Ondo State Command have arrested a 43-year-old pastor, Adebolu Olulusi, for alleged fraud.
NIGERIACRIME learnt that the suspect defrauded one Taiwo Opesanmi of N1.2 million between 2019 and 2020.
The pastor, within that period, reportedly collected various amounts of money from Opesanmi, promising to assist her in securing a job at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited NNPCL.
Olulusi was said to have shut off all channels of communication with his victim, after receiving the funds.
He also disappeared from his residence, No. 1, Ore Ofe, Irese Road, in Akure, the state capital.
Confirming this, the Public Relations Officer of Command, Daniel Aidamenbor, stated that Opesanmi had encountered the pastor at a prayer mountain in Ijoka, Akure, where they met.
After obtaining a court order, the Counter Terrorism Unit of the NSCDC, in collaboration with a commercial bank, successfully tracked down and apprehended the suspect.
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He said, “At the point of the investigation, another victim of the Pastor also accused him of selling land to her using a fake deed of gift for N800,000.
“She had to pay another N1 million to the rightful owner of the land since she already had a structure on it.”
Meanwhile, armed robbers reportedly invaded the off-campus lodge of students of the Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa University in Bauchi State.
The incident occurred last Thursday in the off-campus lodge situated in the Sabon Kaura area of the Bauchi metropolis.
The robbers, who were about 20 in number, carted away several items, including two laptops and six mobile phones, during the attack launched simultaneously against the occupants of three rooms.
Aminu Baba, a 500-level quantitative survey student at ATBU, was rushed to the hospital after he was severely injured by the robbers, who inflicted a deep machete cut on his hand when he tried to escape after they forced their way into his room.
Another student in the affected lodge who refused to disclose his identity said he was still awake watching movies on his laptop when he heard a loud bang at their gate.
According to him, neighbours from the next compound who came to rescue them were not spared.