Cement merchant Cement merchant Alhaji Jamiu Azees, has witnessed a reversal of fortune after he was allegedly defrauded of a sum of N700 million by suspected fraudsters who posed as spiritualists.
A businessman, Alhaji Jamiu Azees,
has witnessed a reversal of fortune after he was allegedly defrauded of a
sum of N700 million by suspected fraudsters who posed as spiritualists.
The fraudsters allegedly collected the money from Azees’ eldest son,
Kazeem Babatunde Aremu, under the false pretence of assisting him to
overcome a spiritual attack, which turned out to be scam. Azees, 68, who
is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jummy Azees
Nigeria Limited, a major distributor of Dangote Cement in Ota, a suburb
of Ogun, said a female member of the syndicate, Kemi Abimbola Rufai had
registered with the firm as customer and was given credit facility by
his eldest son, Kazeem, who is the Managing Director of his company.
Their relationship became intimate so
much so that Kazeem began to give her advice on how to improve sales and
make more profit. Kemi, it was gathered, later told Kazeem that he was
suffering from some spiritual attacks orchestrated by his family through
which he was allegedly hypnotised and defrauded of the huge sum of
money belonging to the company. The syndicate allegedly took the young
businessman to shrines where they hypnotised him and collected money.
Kazeem, 35, said: “Sometimes in or about July, 2014, one Kemi Abimbola
Rufai became a registered customer to the company and was given credit
facility in form of two truck-load of Dangote Cement worth N1. 98
million, but she failed to pay as promised.”
Kazeem noted that sometime in December
2015, the said Kemi invited him for an important discussion at Caaso Bus
Stop, Alagbado area of Lagos state, during which she explained that a
certain Musilm cleric she met at Oju Ore area of Ogun State, advised him
to come for spiritual cleansing to free him free from his father’s
‘diabolical grip’. According to him, following Kemi’s pressure he
underwent a ritual cleansing at a river in Meiran area of Lagos State.
‘’After the spiritual cleansing, the Alfa told me to embark on a
seclusion journey to an unknown destination before I could completely
win the spiritual battle to release me from the firm grip of my father
over his wealth and the entire spiritual process with the Alfa has cost
me a sum of N45 million. ”
The Alfa then advised me to stay back so
that Kemi could undergo the seclusion for me. On the eight day of the
spiritual seclusion, I was in Lagos when I received a call from Alfa and
Kemi, that the money I gave to them for rituals cleansing has
miraculously and magically turned to Dollars and Euros. Continuing, he
said: “So, I was asked to come to Oshogbo, Osun State, to collect the
hard currencies; when I realized that Kemi had been in Oshogbo all the
while for the seclusion, I had to embark on a journey to Oshogbo when
Alfa warned that it would be spiritually dangerous for me if I failed to
collect the hard currencies myself. On getting to Oshogbo, the said
Alfa took me to a hotel where Kemi was lodged. She narrated to me how
she was traumatized in the spiritual world, in her effort to assist me
to fight the curse, but she assured me that all was well thereafter.
“That night, Kemi and the said Alfa
accompanied me to Osun Oshogbo river in Osun State, where I met one
short old man and his group fully dressed in white regalia chanting some
strange ‘Quran verses’. The short old man pointed at a black box with
Quranic inscriptions, claiming that the box contained hard currency,
which I can only have access to upon the payment of a sum of $1 m.
The black box covered with white cloth was released to me to test the efficacy of the rituals in the hotel room, where I paid a sum of three million naira to the group, through my Zenith Bank account in Oshogbo.” Narrating further, he said, “The following day after I returned to Lagos, I began to source for a forex dealer agent to assist me to get a sum of one million dollars demanded by the syndicate.
The black box covered with white cloth was released to me to test the efficacy of the rituals in the hotel room, where I paid a sum of three million naira to the group, through my Zenith Bank account in Oshogbo.” Narrating further, he said, “The following day after I returned to Lagos, I began to source for a forex dealer agent to assist me to get a sum of one million dollars demanded by the syndicate.
In the process, I took a sum of four
hundred and seventy thousand dollars to Kemi’s house at Number 4 Harmony
Estate, Aboru, a Lagos suburb, and while I was in her house, a member
of the syndicate called ‘Osokoro’ called her to spread the dollars on
the floor on the four corners of the room”. It happened that Kazeem paid
a total sum of eight hundred and twenty thousand dollars ($820,000.00)
to the syndicate to perform some rituals that could multiply the hard
currencies in the box. It was when the scale fell off his eyes that the
police arrested Kemi and other members of the syndicate. It was learnt
that some of the suspects bribed their way out of police dragnet. The
Nation gathered that some of the suspects have since been re-arrested by
the operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Monitoring
Unit, following a petition by Kazeem’s father.
The suspects were identified as, Alfa
Otukoko; Rasheed Gbadewale Alayande (a.k.a Achebe); Ogbenle Abiola
SIna(a.K.a Oluwo Ikire); Olohunwa Alabi; Ibrahim Mojeed Olaifa (a.k.a
Apanpa); Alhaji Fatai; Alfa Ikire; Alfa Kamoli; Kemi Abimbola Rufai;
Serif Ademola; Osoroko; Omo Sheu; Femi Vincent Femi; Adeniji Daniel and
others. Items recovered from the suspects include a Toyota Venza car; a
KIA Cerato car; one Toyota Camry; a Lexus 350 car and one house
purchased by Sherif Ademola through the proceed of crime. Some of the
suspects including Rasheed Gbadewale Alayande (aka Achebe); Olohunwa
Alabi and Sheriff Ademola were initially arraigned before an Igbosere
Magistrate’s Court for kidnapping, obtaining money by false pretence,
robbery, threat to life and stealing in the sum of N656, 140,000.00 from
Kazeem. A police source said the leader of the syndicate, Otunba Buasri
(a.k.a Akin Osa), and some members of his gang are now at large while
effrots are being intensified by the police to arrest other fleeing
members of the gang. They have since been arraigned before a state High
Court sitting in Igbosere, Lagos and granted bail by the presiding
judge, Justice C. N. Nwaka. The case has been adjourned till October 20,
for hearing.
Source: http://thenationonlineng.net
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