Wait a minute the Same Man Was Arrested For Same Offence 2
Years Ago
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| 2012 - Olalekan Kazeem |
A 36-year-old man, Olalekan Kazeem, has been arrested by
the Lagos State Police Command for alleged fraud and theft. According to police
authorities, the suspect’s modus operandi was to either impersonate a popular
person on facebook and defraud unsuspecting people or to offer women free rides
with his car only to make away with their valuables.
According to PUNCH, five women had
fallen victim to his tricks, three of whom were National Youth Service Corps
members.
The police also said the suspect was
five years ago arrested and paraded before journalists. The victims told journalists
at the office of the Police Public Relations Officer that the suspect made away
with cash, documents, ATM cards and their handbags.
One
of the victims, Adenike Odubiyi,
said Kazeem posed as Prince Adekunle Oyekan on facebook. She
said:
“On facebook, someone with the name
Prince Adekunle Oyekan, sent me a friend request. He never used his own
personal picture rather; he used the Nigerian Coat of Arms logo as his picture”.
“I accepted his request and he was
able to get my BlackBerry PIN on my profile page and we used to chat a lot”.
“One day he asked me what I was
doing for living but I told him that I completed my NYSC in February but had no
job. He told me he had connections with the Nigerian Customs Service and that
he could help me get a job there”.
Odubiyi said the suspect demanded for
N235,000 and told her that they would need to travel to the NCS Headquarters,
Abuja together. She said on November 15, 2012, she met the suspect at Motorways
Plaza, and she got into his car.
She said:
“My husband dropped me off at
Motorways where I met Kazeem. Kazeem later told me that he was a surgeon and
that his real name was Babs Adegoroye”.
“On our way to the Ikeja Airport, he
stopped to buy fuel at Mobolaji Johnson Avenue. After buying fuel, he said his
car was faulty and asked me to help push it (car) so he could kick start it.
“I alighted from the vehicle,
leaving all my money (N235, 000), my original credentials and other valuables
in his car. Immediately I pushed the car, Kazeem started it and sped off”.
Three
NYSC members, who also fell victim to the suspect, said Kazeem offered them a free ride in Oyo State but made away with
their belongings.
The
victims –
Fadeke Adefemi, Ganiyat Ibrahim and Folashade Okunola – were on their way from
their Community Development Service when they met the suspect.
Adefemi
said:
“On
December 20, 2012, my colleagues and I were on our way back from CDS on Ishara
end of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when Kazeem saw us in our uniform. He offered us
a ride and we boarded his car”.
“When we
got to Guru Maraji area, he said his car was faulty and asked us to alight and
push it. As we were pushing it, the car started and he sped off. All our
belongings were in his vehicle, including phones”.
Another victim, Janet Akinbo, said she had a similar experience with Kazeem when he picked her up at Berger
end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
She
said:
“My ATM
card, phone and my original credentials were left in Kazeem’s car. My ATM PIN
was my date of birth and Kazeem was able to obtain this information from my
curriculum vitae”.
“He was
able to withdraw all the money in my bank account which was N104, 000”.
The suspect, who claimed to be a
graduate of Civil Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, told PUNCH that he
took to crime because he needed to take care of his wife and four children.
“I
became a fraudster because I had fallen victim to fraudsters before. I used to
be a foreman for a building construction company but needed more money to take
care of my family”, he said.
When quizzed about how he escaped
being sent to jail five years ago, the suspect said he was acquitted of all
charges.
The PPRO, Ngozi Braide, seized the
opportunity to warn members of the public, especially women, to be very careful
when dealing with strangers.
“The
case of Cynthia Osokogu should serve as a lesson to young women that meeting
strangers on social networks or getting into a car with a strange man is dangerous”, she said,
adding that the suspect was arrested through intelligence gathering.
She said, “After the lady he (Odubiyi)
met on facebook reported at Ogudu Police Station, detectives were able to find
him and when his place was searched, some belongings of the other victims were
found.
“Through their items, we were able to
contact them. However, we couldn’t recover their certificates”. The PRO, therefore, advised women;
whether married or not, to be wary of the likes of Adekunle, wondering
why anyone would enter into a private car without knowing the driver. The
suspect, she said, would be charged to court.
Source
Olalekan
Kazeem
was arrested for similar crime about 3 years ago – FEB 2010…The story
then was titled - HOW LOVE FOR FEMALE BOOBS TURNED THIS MAN INTO A
CRIMINAL
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| 2010 - Olalekan Kazeem |
Khadijat
Ope
was one of his victims. Her ordeal happened on a hot, sunny Saturday in
Ikorodu, a Lagos suburb. On that day, she had waited without success for a
commercial bus to take her to Victoria Island. Just as the she was
contemplating calling a cab, a private car, a Toyota Camry, stopped and the
driver offered her a ride.
The young man driving the car, later
identified as Olalekan Kazeem, said
he too was going to the island but that he had already missed his way. The
23-year old student, who had gone to collect her West African Examination
Council (WAEC) result, promised to guide the man.
Few minutes into their journey, Kazeem pretended that the car had
developed some fault and stopped.
After alighting and examining the
car, Kazeem implored the girl to
assist him in pushing the car. The unsuspecting girl dropped her bag inside the
car and climbed out. In the bag were her handset, some money, her identity
card, a WAEC certificate and two ATM cards. But as soon as she came out of the
car, Kazeem started the engine and
zoomed off with Ope’s belongings.
That was not all. Through the girl’s
data on her birth certificate in her bag, Kazeem
got the password for the girl’s ATM card and promptly cleared her account at
the First Bank.
Khadijat wasn’t
the only victim. Kazeem also
employed the same method to rob another lady, Jennifer Chizoba, of the sum of N150, 000 and other personal
effects.
Chizoba, who
spoke with Daily Sun said:
“When the
man picked me, he stopped on the road, saying that his vehicle was bad. He
begged me to assist him in pushing the car. While I was pushing the car, the
man zoomed off with my bag containing N150,000 which my relatives contributed
for me to set up a business”
Many other girls have been similarly
defrauded by Kazeem. But luck
recently ran out on the man who has for long made life unbearable for his
victims. He’s now cooling his heels in a police cell.
Kazeem, who is currently singing
like a bird at the Alapere police station was arrested when one of the victims
sighted him at a car wash at the Alapere area and called in the police. He was
subsequently picked up.
Recovered from him were five female
handbags, 28 ATM cards, 12 identity cards, four national ID cards, two voters
registration card, a Joint Matriculation Examination result, and other items.
The suspect who claimed he only
targeted women told Daily Sun that he decided to start robbing them because he
had earlier been robbed by a woman.
‘Why
I rob only women’
In his words, trouble started for
him when he was fondling the breasts of one of the girls. According to him, he
was sucking the girl’s breast when he slept off. He regained consciousness the
following day, he said, adding that the girl might have coated her breast with
a sleep-inducing drug.
While he slept, he said, the girl
searched his pockets and collected all the money. She was also alleged to have
taken his car keys and stole the N160, 000 inside the car.
According to him, the man who gave
him the money on trust did not believe the story even after he had explained
what happened and ordered Kazeem detained for a week at a police station in
Abeokuta, Ogun state.
“My real predicament started when my
wife came to visit me at the police station and a policeman told her how I
sucked a prostitute’s breast. My wife could not take the insult, so she
abandoned me to my fate.”
After his release, Kazeem said he decided to avenge his
humiliation on any woman he came across. “Any time I pick a woman, I derive
immense pleasure in dealing with her. I regard all my victims as prostitutes
because a responsible woman would not be looking for a free ride with a total
stranger,” he informed.
Kazeem has a
word of advice for ladies. “They should stop looking for free ride with strangers.
They should try to patronize registered taxis”.
The 37-year old Abeokuta indigene
begged those he had offended to forgive him but said they should thank God that
he had no gun when he was perpetrating the act as he would have used it on
them.
Another victim, a model, Cynthia Kodu said the man had also
applied the same method to rob her of her handbag containing handsets, N18,000, underwear and make-up.
Lagos state police spokesman, Mr. Frank Mba said preliminary
investigations have shown that the man has robbed over 30 female victims.
Mba, who said
the man would soon be charged to the court, warned members of the public to
stop patronizing unregistered taxis. “They should go to the recognized taxi parks
to board taxis”, he said.
OBSERVATIONS:
So
much as I do not doubt the credibility of this story, there are few
inconsistencies in the 2012 story, even though it is so similar to 2010 version.
E.g:
1.
Kazeem
was 37 years old in 2010 when he was first arrested, unbelievably, he’s 36
years old when arrested in 2012.
2.
The police also said the suspect was
arrested five years ago, but according to the story here, he was arrested in
2010.
3.
Key lessons from this story for me are the
advice given by the police and the suspect both in 2010 and 2012
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