Our correspondent learnt that Adebayo, a 400-Level student
of Computer Science, allegedly lured the ladies by uploading some rich pictures
on Facebook, and asking his victims to meet him at a location, usually a hotel
on the pretext that he had deals for them.
PUNCH Metro gathered that when the ladies showed up at the
agreed location, the suspect would dispose them of their phones and other
valuables.
The police alleged that Adebayo worked with an accomplice,
35-year-old Toheeb Fetuga, who had also been arrested.
It was learnt that the suspect was arrested by the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, where one of the victims reported the matter.
Adebayo told PUNCH Metro that he had defrauded seven ladies
of their valuables.
He said, “One of the ladies I defrauded was Rita. She came
to a hotel in the Oyingbo area. We had met on Facebook and I agreed to do a
deal with her. She was a woman willing to have a sexual affair with me for
money.
“I invited her to the hotel and asked how much she would
take. She said $1,000, and I said it was okay. I collected her phone. I asked
her to come for the money at a hotel in the Victoria Island area. So, she
believed me and left.
“I checked the contacts on her phone and that was where I
got the contacts of other ladies I defrauded. I was trying to lure another
friend of hers when I was arrested. I have done it to seven ladies. I usually
meet the young women on Facebook, and it is either I add them or they add me.
“I usually uploaded rich pictures on Facebook, which attracted
them to me. Fetuga was the one I usually gave the valuables to sell. He sold
each of the phones for N6,000.”
Fetuga, on the other hand, said although Adebayo brought the
phones to him, the undergraduate lied to him that the owners were badly in need
of money.
He said, “He came to me that he wanted to sell the phones.
When I asked him where he got the phones from, he said some ladies in his
school were in need of money to complete their projects and examinations.
“He had come about seven times and I gave him about N6,000
for each of the phones. We usually met at different places. He would call and
say we should transact business.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said
investigations were ongoing into the matter.
Source: Punch.
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