Three self -acclaimed Islamic clerics, who specialize in
swindling unsuspecting members of the public and raping their female victims,
have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command.
The names of the suspects, who were arrested on Monday, 16th
September, were given as Aliu Abdulfatai,
50, Sule Adebayo, 36 and Lekan
Olokodana, 31. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi stated that they
were arrested following a report by one of their female victims, whose identity
is being shielded by the police.
Oyeyemi made it known that the victim reported at Adigbe
Police Station that she was duped of the sum of N70,000 by the suspects, while
one of them also forcefully had sex with her against her wish.
“The complainant who is a marketer with a popular property/real
estate company was said to be on marketing assignment when she came across the
suspects who claimed to be Islamic clerics and indicated interest in purchasing
large expanse of land which they claimed they wanted to use for construction of
their mosque. There and then, they introduced the issue of special prayer to
their victim from where they came out with seeing a vision that the victim was
under a spell, for which she needed special deliverance prayer”, DSP Oyeyemi
stated.
He went on that “as a result of this, they succeeded in
fraudulently obtaining the sum of N70,000 from her after they lured her into
their house where one of them forcefully raped her.
On the strength of her complain, the DPO Adigbe Division,
CSP Augustine Opadile detailed his detectives to go after these hoodlums and
bring them to justice. Their efforts paid off when three amongst them were
apprehended while waiting for the victim to bring the money they demanded for”.
He however disclosed that one of them escaped.
Police authorities have stated that on interrogation, they
confessed being fraudsters and that has been their means of livelihood. It was
also revealed that one of them has used the proceeds of their fraudulent act to
build a private school in Ikorodu, Lagos State.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama has ordered a
full scale investigation into the activities of the hoodlums and make them face
the full weight of the law.
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