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The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday 24th September, 2012, arrested Mr.
Adebisi Adeniyi James, 32, for fraudulently obtaining N630, 000 under the false
pretence of securing admission into the University of Abuja for his victim.
The arrest of James
who hails from Oke-Imesi, Ekiti State followed a petition by Mrs. Helen Igoni
Owuaru, a widow who alleged that sometime in April 2012, while she was
travelling to Abuja to seek admission into the University of Abuja for her
daughter, she met the suspect at the reception hall of Chisco Transport Company
in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In the course of their discussion, she
mentioned the purpose of her journey to the suspect who immediately promised to
help secure the admission for her daughter through his brother, one Deacon
Adebisi Adeniyi, purportedly the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University.
Mrs. Owuaru added
that barely three weeks after that encounter, the suspect called to inform her
that he had secured the admission and needed to make some immediate payments.
The complainant said she immediately remitted some money through the bank
account provided by the suspect. According to her, she made several other
payments totalling N630, 000.00 (six hundred and thirty thousand naira) to the
suspect.
She said she became
suspicious when the suspect started giving her different dates for
matriculation. This, according to her, prompted her to embark on a fact finding
visit to the University, only to discover that there was no such staff as
Deacon Adebisi Adeniyi on the payroll of the University of Abuja.
Following this
discovery, Mrs. Owuaru petitioned the EFCC.
The suspect will be
arraigned in court as soon as investigation is concluded.
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