A
student of the National Open University, Osogbo Study Centre, Olusola
Akinlotan, has been arrested by the Osun State Command of the Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps for alleged fraud.
According
to a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on
Thursday, the security agency also arrested two other suspects who are
members of a fraud syndicate: Olayiwola Oladayo and Bolarinwa Adebayo
a.k.a Dodo.
Akinlotan,
who was said to have abandoned his studies at the university when he
was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was
however arrested on Monday when he went to the School to transfer his
study to another location outside the state.
The
suspect and the other members of the gang were said to have been
engaged in defrauding unsuspecting persons by arranging fake visas and
travel documents for them.
The
suspects, according to the statement, duped an Enugu based businessman,
Nnamchi Nichodemus, of a sum of N700,000 through a dubious
travelling transaction in November 2014.
The
businessman was said to have been tricked into paying the said money
into an account belonging to Akinlotan who was promised a sum of
N105,000.
The NOUN
student was said to have immediately gone to the bank to collect the
money through the Automatic Teller Machine and the counter while he
handed over the balance to Oladayo for onward transmission to Adebayo
a.k.a Dodo.
The
statement read, “Akinlotan, who was arrested within the premises of the
Open University while trying to process his transfer of study to another
location outside Osun State, led the NSCDC to the hideouts of the other
two suspects.
“Desperate
to get off the hook, the suspects offered bribe to the NSCDC officers
who arrested them, but they turned down the bribe in line with the
principle of the corps.
“The
suspects have since been handed over to the EFCC by the state Commandant
of the NSCDC, Tajudeen Ayobami Balogun for prosecution.”
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