Police
alleged that Akintunde, a resident of Egbado road, Dalemo, Alakuko, Alagbada,
Lagos and hailed from Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria allegedly succeeded in
defrauding her France-based victim, Ayobami Adeniyi after she promised to marry
him and also helped him purchase a filling station in Nigeria.
Trouble
started for the suspect when the DCP in charge of Federal SARS, 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 out an unregistered Renault bus with
properties inside value at about N2.5 million for just N1 million.
During
investigation, Akintunde allegedly told the police that she was not a smuggler and
that her France-based Facebook lover 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 turned 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.
Within two
days, Adeniyi arrived Nigeria and went straight to the FSARS office, Lagos to
narrate what happened between him and the suspect.
Adeniyi
allegedly stated: “I am a Nigerian from Oyo State and based in France. I met
the suspect Akintude on Facebook in November 2016. And in the cause of our
discussion, the suspect told me that she was a divorcee and that if I was ready
for a relationship I should send her money to rent an accommodation and I sent
the sum of N100, 000 to her because I was desperately in need of a wife from
Yoruba land.
“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 stations for N4 million and she advised me to
purchase the station so that any time I returned to Nigeria to settle down with
her, I would have investment to fall back on. She sent three pictures of the
three filing station 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 confirmed 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 was completed to
pay for the filing station. I transferred the sum of N750,000, N650,000,
250,000 and N200, 000 into her account. I equally sold my Peugeot car in
Nigeria for N1 million and remitted the money into her account.
“I also
shipped a Renault bus with properties inside valued 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 plunged me into dept.
“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 which he was claiming and a bus
which she sold for N1 million and used the process to buy an uncompleted
building at Ijoko area of Sango Ota, Ogun State.
A police
source said the suspect would be charge to court after the conclusion of
investigation.
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