Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Bankers steal N6m from customer’s account for money ritual

Detectives attached to the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two workers of a new generation bank who withdrew money from customer’s account for money ritual.

The bankers’ shady transactions were exposed after they were defrauded by a muslin cleric, Mubarak Ismaila Abdulahi 47, and a prophetess, Bola Ojo. Abdulahi confessed to be a genuine Islamic cleric and also a native doctor.
While the female banker who was duped insisted that she was set up and duped, Abdulahi said that it was the lady who came to him for money ritual.
“She said she was tired of banking work and wanted to get pregnant and rich. I asked to pay N5.8m. I told her that we would need to buy Camels and also used somebody with hunch back for the materials,” said Abdulahi.
According to a police source, one of the bank’s staff, who is a marketer with the bank, met one Ajibola in the bank and the said Ajibola introduced himself to her as the aide of a renowned politician.
Ajibola further told the banker, a female, to assist him with the exchange of $30,000, equivalent of N6 million. Ajibola asked her to bring the money to another bank, to collect the naira equivalent. The banker agreed after much persuasion and the promise that she would get something.
The banker didn’t know she was dealing with fraudsters. She told a male colleague about the deal since she didn’t have that kind of money.
The police said that without the knowledge of the account owner, the colleague she confided in, withdrew the said amount from a client’s account. They both went with her to the Bureau de change and changed it to $30,000. They now proceeded to the designated bank to give Ajibola the money and to collect her own.
When she got to the bank, she called Ajibola that she was at the bank with the said amount. However, trouble started, when he sent her the office address and asked her to bring the money to his office, stressing that as politicians, it wasn’t safe for them to move around with large sums of money. Without thinking twice, she went straight to Ajibola’s office at 28, Samson Street, Oke-Odo.
When she got there, she didn’t meet Ajibola, but met Abdulahi who allegedly hypnotised her. He gave her soap and prayed for her. He also collected the money from her.
Abdulahi told her to use the soap and sponge to bath while Bola Ojo spoke from the background as the voice of the Holy Ghost.
Immediately they collected the money, they disappeared. After two hours, she ran to her colleague, to lament that she had been duped.
The owner of the account had however been debited six million thirty-six thousand naira (N6036, 000). The account owner called her account officer to know why the said amount was debited from her account. He assured her that all was well, that he would pay back the money in the next two to three hours. After waiting weeks, the male bank confessed to the account owner.
The angry lady immediately petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti, who then referred the case to special Anti-Robbery squad (SARS).
The female banker revealed how she met Adebisi Ajibola who is currently at large.
Abdulahi who had shut down his office and relocated to Ilogbo, Ogun State was arrested. Abdullah’s arrest, led to the arrest of Bola Ojo, the fake prophetess.
Abdulahi said: “It was my brother Ajibola who introduced me to the banker. She called me that she wanted to do money ritual. She came to my house in Egbeda for prayers, saying that she needed to get pregnant and also needed money to start her own business.”
Abdulahi, a father of four, said the lady fell hook, line and sinker for the ruse.
The prophetess, Bola Ojo, a member of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Boluwatife Parish, located at Iyano-Ipaja, said she was paid N200,000 by  Abdulahi for her role.

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