Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 24, 2016 arrested one Dada
Olatunji, a former Assistant Comptroller General of the
Nigeria Fire Service for offences bordering on
employment scam.
Olatunji’s arrest followed a petition by two applicants
- Robert
Mathew and Theresa Abah- alleging that, sometime in December 2014, one
Christopher Adaje, an officer at the Nyanya Office of the agency informed them of a recruitment exercise
purportedly going on and promised to facilitate their employment into the
Service before April, 2015
if they could part
with N350, 000.00 (three
hundred and fifty thousand naira) each.
Matthew and Abah who were desperate to get employment,
but could not afford
the said sum, resorted to soliciting for help from their friends and loved
ones.
Eventually, Matthew was able
to source his from a friend while Abah took a loan of N225,000.00 (two hundred and twenty five thousand) from her
friend, to meet Adaje’s demand to offer them job.
Altogether, a total of N575,000 (five hundred and seventy five thousand naira) was raised by Matthew and Abah which was paid into an account
supplied by Adaje in one of the old generation banks.
Months after, Adaje could not deliver on his
promise, a situation that prompted the applicants to visit his office where
they discovered it was fraud.
On arrest, Adaje confessed that, he was fronting for Olatunji whom
he claimed, the money was given to.
The suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations
are concluded.
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