impersonating APC leader, Bola Tinubu, Police Commissioner,
Fatai Owoseni and a DSP.
The suspects identified as 24-year-old Lucky Adieze, 23-year-
old John Ogunnowo, 21-year-old Obinna Collins and 58-year-old
Afoke Adetolani were paraded by Lagos Police Command
yesterday.
See their individual confessions below:
Adieze Lucky:
“I am a hip hop musician and I opened a Facebook account with
Tinubu’s picture to attract people. I think it was the person who
gave me his account number that made police to find me and arrest
me two weeks ago.”
John Ogunnowo, 23 who gave Adieze his account number said:
“I work in an health organization but when I lost my job, I was
trying to look for money to enable me go back to school. I only gave
him my bank account number not knowing that he had bad intention
that will end up putting me in trouble. “When I went to the bank to
collect money, I was told that my account was zero and in an
attempt to know why, police arrested me.”
Obinna Collins, who claimed to be National Diploma II Electrical
Engineering Student said:
“ I opened a Facebook account using CP Owoseni because it is only
way to attract victims. Once they see CP, they would believe
everything I tell them and I would get the money I wanted. This
particular woman, Mrs Ronke, a business woman is the only victim.
I was chatting with her and she ended up paying N20, 000 into my
account. I initially told her that I had boys whom I am training in
higher institution and I have a foundation that is taking care of it.
“Surprisingly Mrs Ronke told me to come and meet her at Conoil,
Ikeja to collect something she wanted to give me as a hard working
Commissioner of Police. I asked her whether she knew the size of
my shoes and she said it does not matter that what she wanted was
to have fun with me. She however insisted that she wanted me to
collect the shoe and iPad as a remembrance of our love. She said
she had been nursing the idea of having fun with me and that was
what she wanted for her life.
“Unfortunately for me, when I came to collect the golden shoe and
the Ipad, I was arrested by the police.”
Adetolani, a former traffic warden inspector known as yellow
fever who impersonated a DSP said:
“I was dismissed because my colleague who stole a tyre from a
parked exhibit vehicle in police station said that I planned it with
him. I tried to defend myself but they insisted that we did it together
and both of us were dismissed.
“To help myself and my family, I decided to do something smart. I
first bought this uniform and later bought the DSP rank and ID card
and uniform for N15,000. I was dismissed from Surulere division in
1984. They framed me up and dismissed me.
“I bought a bus for commercial purpose but my offence is that I
hanged this uniform in my bus so that police, LASTMA, KAI, road
safety and other law enforcement agents will not disturb me on the
road. You can see that the name I used is my real name. I was
stopped at Oshodi by police and I told them that I am a police DSP
and they paid me my compliment but told me that they still wanted
to investigate me.
“It was that investigation and interrogation that gave me up. I tried
to bribe them yet they refused and told me that police have changed
and that it was no more business as usual. But one thing is clear; I
did not rob with it. I only used it to get respect and easy passage
whenever I meet law enforcement agents. Please tell police to
forgive me, it is due to the hardship I was passing through after my
dismissal.”
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