A 53-year-old primary school certificate holder,
Moses Olayemi , has been arraigned before an
Ikeja High Court for defrauding a Senior
Advocate of Nigeria.
Olayemi , who was charged with two counts of
conspiracy to commit felony, was alleged to have
defrauded Dr Aliyu Salimon (SAN) under the
pretext of conducting a National Assembly
screening for a Federal Government appointment.
According to Dr Salimon , he was coerced into
paying N2.5 million into a Skye Bank account,
only for him to realise that he had been duped.
“I was on my way to Ibadan from Ilorin for an
INEC case when I received a call from someone
who claimed that he was the Chairman of a
committee compiling the list of people to be given
Federal Government appointment.
“He asked me to send my CV, which I did from a
nearby cyber cafe. He then asked me to pay
N150,000 for him to get security report about
me,” he said.
The learned SAN, however, pointed out that after
several conversations on phone, he sent N2.5
million to an account belonging to one Moses
Babatunde, adding that he paid the money,
believing it would help him get a better job.
“I paid the money thinking it would help me get
a better job.
It was after I paid the money that I
was told that the job had been given to someone
else,” he said.
In his own statement, the accused, Moses
Olayemi , denied the accusations, adding that he
never collected any money from the SAN.
“My friend, Akpan, asked me if I have a Skye
Bank account but since I did not have one, I got
that of my friend Babatunde. It was when we
went to withdraw the money that we were
apprehended and handed over to EFCC,” he said.
The accused was denied bail by Justice Lawal
Akapo on the grounds that he is a convicted
criminal who jumped bail in Kano State and fled
to Lagos.
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