I steal from ladies to survive, says twice arrested suspect(part2)

Die hard...Kazeem

Adenike

One would have expected Nigerians, especially ladies to be wary while dealing with faceless strangers via internet since the Cynthia Osokogu saga.

Cynthia was a young lady who found love via facebook and left her home in the north to search for Romeo in Lagos State. She later ended up being murdered by Romeo and his friends.

 Mrs. Adebiyi Adenike Okunola seems to be one of those who are apt to easily forget about Cynthia Osokogu.

She, like Cynthia also met a guy via facebook. The guy introduced himself as a Prince, but the facebook display had no human picture except for a coat of arm emblem. The man would later be identified as Olalekan Kazeem, who incidentally had been arrested before for drugging and stealing from unsuspecting ladies.

Adenike and Kazeem got chatting; a friendship blossomed. One thing led to another, they decided to meet.

Items recovered from Kazeem

She soon found out that the guy was nothing but a petty thief! Kazeem disappeared into thin air with her N235, 000, 00, jewelry, two blackberry phones, original copies of school certificates, ATM and PHCN cards.

According to police, Kazeem was later arrested at the Redeem Camp, along Ibadan expressway.

Police investigations had also revealed that Adenike is not the only victim he had stolen from.

Atinuke

Fadake

Other victims are; Okunola Folashade, Ibrahim Ganiyat Bukola, Adefemi Fadeke Mercy and Akinbo Janet Atinuke.

These are victims presently besieging police station, singing like birds on how Kazeem dispossessed them of their valuables. Police are however working on the theory that there may be other victims, who are yet to surface.

It was gathered that Adenike met with the suspect on facebook, chatted and became friendly with him. In the course of their chatting, Kazeem, who studies mechanical engineering, claimed to be a surgeon, insisting that he wished to assist Adenike, who had just concluded her NYSC in February, with a job.

The suspect bragged that he had a friend, who is a custom officer. He explained to Adenike that his friend had a slot for a job in Customs, which the man could give to Adenike, if she could cough out N200, 000.

On November 15, 2012, Adenike and Kazeem set out for Abuja, where the supposed  Customs Officer is working and residing.

Along the way however, Kazeem pretended that his car had developed a fault. He implored Adenike to step down and assist him in pushing the car. As soon as the lady stepped down to push the car, Kazeem zoomed off.

When it dawned on the victim that Kazeem had played a fast one on her, she went to lodge a complaint at Ogundu Police Station.

He was arrested on December 23, 2012.

Since his arrest, news of his escapades had travelled like wildfire, filtering into ears of three NYSC members, whose bags and valuables he made away with.

The NYSC members are Okunola Folashade, Ibrahim Ganiyat Bukola, Adefemi Fadeke Mercy.

The trio was on their way to Ibadan, on December 20, 2012, when they ran into Kazeem. He offered them lift and they accepted. But on getting to tollgate, he diverted to old Lagos/Ibadan road, where as usual, he pretended that his car had developed fault, begged the girls to step down and help in pushing it.

And as before in the case of Adenike, he  zoomed off without a backward glance. He made away with the girls’ laptop,  cash, certificates, ATM card, toast machine, phones, clothes, among other things.

Akinbo Janet Atinuke is another prey, who fell into his trap. She was said to have  boarded his car at Berger on November 12, 2012, heading to Ibadan. On their way, he stopped at  a filling station and soon pretended that the car could not start.

Atinuke naturally stepped down to assist in pushing the car. That was the last she saw of Kazeem. He made away with her laptop, phone, SSCE Certificate, ATM card, NYSC discharge Certificate and the sum of N140, 000.00 which was allegedly withdrawn from her account with her ATM card by the suspect.

Fielding questions from journalists, Kazeem, 36, father of four said: “I met Adenike through facebook, we became friendly. She gave me her BB pin and we used to chat via BB, but she never told me that she was married! The friendship had been on for over a year before we decided to meet on February. She had been pressurising me for a job. I told her she could get a job in Abuja. I told her that she would have to buy a slot in Customs. She brought the N200, 000. On the way, I pretended that my car was faulty. I drove off. Along the way, I stopped and flung her certificate into the bush!”

Police had since combed the nooks and crannies of the bush where Kazeem claimed to have flunf away  Adenike’s certificate, but they had not been able to locate it.

Recalling the first time he was arrested for the same crime and charged to court, Kazeem said: “ I was charged to court, but the case in court dragged on for three years and I was later discharged and acquitted.”

Asked the advice he had for Nigerians, especially ladies who make friends online and accept lift from strangers, Kazeem paused for a while and then said: “ If you’re married, tell people you’re married!...as for NYSC members, they should stop accepting lift from strangers. All the money I make in this…I use it to eat.”

Adenike on the other hand, claimed that since she started her friendship with Kazeem, she had never hidden anything from her husband. According to her, it was her husband, who first raised doubt about Kazeem when he demanded for N200, 000 to give a slot in Customs to Adenike.

According to her, even on the day she was supposed to leave for Abuja with Kazeem, her husband came to see her off.

Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide said that in view of what happened to Cynthia Osokogu, she had expected ladies to be careful in dealing and chatting with people online. She also kicked against the idea of accepting lift from strangers.

“Cynthia’s incident should be a lesson to every girl!” said Braide.

 How love for boobs lands suspect in police net(part1)

He pretends to be a nice guy who would readily offer a free ride to a willing female. But he’s actually a criminal whose ploy is to rob his victims. Olalekan Kazeem is currently telling police detectives in Lagos why he’s been going about the city robbing women of their personal effects. He was arrested by the police after one of his victims sighted him in Lagos. He is currently cooling his heels in a police cell, awaiting his date with the law.

Khadijat Ope was one of his victims. Her ordeal happened on a hot, sunny Saturday in Ikorodu, a Lagos suburb.
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.
He said his journey into crime began in November last year. According to him, somebody had given him the sum of N160,000 to keep on trust at the Eko Le Meridien Hotel, Lagos.
Said he: “That day, I decided to eat at the Ocean View Restaurant. As I was eating, two beautiful young girls appeared from the blues. I approached one of them and I even paid her bill of N2, 500. I also bought drinks for them.”

‘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.