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The
EFCC has arrested a 33-year-old man, Gift Onyegam, for defrauding a blind
teacher, Mrs. Mary Rose Ihekanacho of N830, 000.
The
victim was deceived through calls purportedly by a former acquaintance, Patrick
Abah, a fellow she met during her National Youth Service orientation in 2009,
into making the payments to enable her secure employment for her son with Shell
Petroleum Company in Port Harcourt.
The
supposed Patrick had asked if she would like to work with Shell in Port Harcourt as they
were recruiting. Mary said she would like the job for her son and the fraudster
promised to assist her through his in-law, Okoh Ayabaye, an Engineer with
Shell. She was then asked to pay the sum of N830, 000.00 into two accounts:
a First Bank account belonging to Okoh Ayabaye and a Diamond Bank account belonging
to Alamabo Teneilabe.
It
dawned on her that she had been duped when the job was not forthcoming after
the payment had been made. Consequently, she petitioned the EFCC. The anti-
graft agency launched its investigations which culminated in the arrest of one
of the account owners, Alamabo Teneilabe.
Teneilabe however claimed he knew nothing
about the fraud. He said he only gave his number to his colleague, Gift Onyegam
who told him that he need the account to enable his sister remit some money to
him as Diamond Bank was the only bank operating where she lives. He claimed he acquiesced
to the request after Gift promised to give him N3, 000 from the money he
expecting from the sister, that he never knew he was going to use his account
for any fraudulent purpose.
Teneilabe’s arrest, paved way for the arrest
of Gift Onyegam who confessed to having committed the fraud. He admitted
getting Mary Rose Ihekanacho’s details from the Corpers’ year book and
presenting himself as Abah Patrick when he spoke to Mary Rose Ihekanacho.
Gift
also admitted to have received the sum of N830, 000.00 from Ihekanacho to give
her employment and that he used the money to purchase a bus which according to
him, got burnt after about three months.
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