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  • Firm warns impersonators

    The Managing Director of Chief E. O Ashamu Estate, Mr. Babatunde Ashamu, has warned the public from transacting business with people he called “fraudulent agents” encroaching on his property.

    The property are in some parts of Lagos, including Oke-Afa, Eletuwashe lands, Ojomo farm land,  NNPC, Akinbaye lands, Ishaga farm lands, Kushoru farm lands, Okota land Magbelesu farm land, Omonigbeni farm land, Akinsanya farm lands, Rawafarm land, Ifoshin farm land, Ashade lands, Ishoru, Magodo farm land, Alashe farm land, Egan-Igando farm land, Igbesa farm land, Elemo land and Isolo and Ejigbo among others.

    Ashamu said his firm is an estate agency, which sells and buys lands.

    In a statement, Ashamu said: “It has been brought to our notice that some people have been parading themselves as representatives of the administrator of Chief E. O Ashamu Estate. They are using this to fraudulently collect money which they did not remit to our office. We have contacted security agents and reputed lawyers to investigate the matter. Anyone found culpable will face the wrath of the law.”

    He said there would be a verification exercise on land title with documents and confirmation of payments.

    According to him, the sole agent appointed by the company is Tassan and Bullman Investments Limited, which will be in charge of transaction on the site.

     

     

  • Firm warns impersonators

    The Managing Director of Chief E. O Ashamu Estate, Mr. Babatunde Ashamu, has warned the public from transacting business with people he called “fraudulent agents” encroaching on his property.

    The property are in some parts of Lagos, including Oke-Afa, Eletuwashe lands, Ojomo farm land,  NNPC, Akinbaye lands, Ishaga farm lands, Kushoru farm lands, Okota land Magbelesu farm land, Omonigbeni farm land, Akinsanya farm lands, Rawafarm land, Ifoshin farm land, Ashade lands, Ishoru, Magodo farm land, Alashe farm land, Egan-Igando farm land, Igbesa farm land, Elemo land and Isolo and Ejigbo among others.

    Ashamu said his firm is an estate agency, which sells and buys lands.

    In a statement, Ashamu said: “It has been brought to our notice that some people have been parading themselves as representatives of the administrator of Chief E. O Ashamu Estate. They are using this to fraudulently collect money which they did not remit to our office. We have contacted security agents and reputed lawyers to investigate the matter. Anyone found culpable will face the wrath of the law.”

    He said there would be a verification exercise on land title with documents and confirmation of payments.

    According to him, the sole agent appointed by the company is Tassan and Bullman Investments Limited, which will be in charge of transaction on the site.

     

     

  • Police nab impersonators of Tinubu, Saraki, Amaechi, others

    Police nab impersonators of Tinubu, Saraki, Amaechi, others

    The police have arrested five suspects for allegedly impersonating the All Progressives Congress leader, Ahmed Tinubu, the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and others.

    The suspects have also allegedly defrauded their victims of over N20million in the last six months.

    The suspects arrested are; High Chief Ovie Ogo, Abdullazeez Eragbe, Babatunde  Oshamoto,   Samuel Idah and Prince Attah a.k.a Maurice who is based in United Kingdom and currently at large.

    Items recovered from them include 14 assorted G.S.M sets, all with sim cards registered with the names of top Government officials and other prominent Nigerians, several extra registered sim cards and a diary containing phone numbers of several top government officials and prominent persons in the country.

    The police noted that the suspects confessed to the crime admitting to have impersonated several prominent citizens.

    Speaking on how the arrest was made, the Force Spokesman, CSP Jimoh Moshood said: ” On 28 of March, the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) on the of cracked and arrested the notorious suspected criminals who posed as chief of staff to President, Senate President, National Security Adviser to President, Minister of petroleum, Minister of Finance, Minister of Transport, Chief Bola Tinubu, and many other prominent Nigerians.

    “In a coordinated operation in synergy with the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU) after a painstaking and sustained surveillance by IRT the suspects were arrested.

    “The four man gang notorious syndicate led by one High Chief Ovie Ogo ( Eze Ireoma of Omoku-Rivers state) was arrested in an Hotel in Kaduna State.”

    Highlighting the roles they played, Moshood said: “High Chief Ovie Ogo (Eze Ireoma of Omoku-Rivers state) 47yrs native of Omoku Rivers State who impersonates Prominent Citizens from the South-South and Southeast.

    “Abdulazeez Eragbe 40yrs impersonates prominent citizens from the North, born and brought up in Kaduna speaks Hausa fluently and Babatunde Oshamoto 49yrs impersonates prominent citizens from the South West and North Central.

    He added: “Samuel Idah 25yrs supplies them with Sim cards registered with the names of the prominent Citizens.”

    On some of their operation, the Force Spokesman said: “Chief Ovie Ogo confessed that he posed as the National Security Adviser and collected ₦13,000,000 from a Ghanaian who wants to get an Oil block in Nigeria.

    “The gang also posed as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and collected ₦4,000,000 from one man who is seeking Federal appointment.

    “They equally posed as Chief of Staff to the President and collected ₦2,500,000 from another individual, who is looking for contract.

    He added: “The suspects again posed as the Chief of Staff to president and collected #700,000 from one young man who is also seeking Federal appointment.”

    The police while noting that investigation is being intensified to arrest other suspects at large added those arrested will be charged to court on completion of investigation.

    The police also urged members of the public to be careful and verify the identity of those they may wish to transact business or relate with.

     

  • 167 ‘impersonators’ held at UNIZIK test

    No fewer than 167 impersonators were apprehended by authorities of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) in Awka, the Anambra State capital, during the institution’s post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

    The impersonators have been handed over to security agencies. They will be charged to court after investigation.

    A statement by the Director of Information and Public Relations, Dr Emmanuel Ojukwu, said 28,233 of the 30,477 candidates that registered for the test, turned up for the week-long exercise.

    Ojukwu said the figure did not include applicants, who applied for affiliated institutions, such as the Federal College of Education (Technical) in Umunze, Anambra State, Enugu State College of Education (Technical), Federal Polytechnic, Auchi (AUCHI POLY) and Pope John Paul II Major Seminary in Okpuno. He said dates had not been fixed for the screening in the affiliated institutions.

    He said: “Due to the stringent processes used by the school to conduct the screening, many fraudulent candidates did not turn up for the exercise to avoid being detected. The university’s newly-acquired Biometric Data Capturing Machines were fully deployed to ensure candidates’ fingerprints were matched with what the institution already has in its data base.”

    The results of the exercise have since been released.

    From investigations, Ojukwu said some parents made efforts to undermine the exercise by paying mercenaries to write the test on behalf of their children. He said some of the impersonators confessed to the crime.

    He said: “We have received criticisms from some parents, because of the mechanism put in place to checkmate fraud. This is wrong and it will lead to nowhere. Such parents must desist from engaging mercenaries to undermine our system.”

    Ojukwu said the university admission list would be based on merit, warning applicants against giving money to anyone for admission.

    He added: “It is on record that some persons, including staff of the university, who collected money to assist candidates in getting admission, could not succeed last year. As a result, a staff of the university abandoned his work and ran away until today. The other one whose case was reported to the management has been dismissed.”

    He said some people opened Facebook accounts in the name of the Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof Joseph Ahaneku, to defraud the public. Ojukwu said the VC did not have social media account.

    He said the school had introduced a new admission policy, which would give candidates who scored below average in post-UTME an advantage to be considered for admission after aggregation of their scores with UTME.

  • Impersonators are using our name, Biu Forum alleges

    THE umbrella body of the Biu people of Borno State, Biu Forum, yesterday in Kaduna alerted of those it called faceless people trying to use the name of the Forum to create political tension in Borno State.

    National President of the Forum, Mohammed Bulama Saidu, told newsmen in Kaduna that some people were using the name of the Forum to create problem between the state governor, Kashim Shettima, and his deputy.

    A group that calls itself Biu Progressive Youth Forum had in a statement asked the governor to drop his deputy and pick someone else, accusing the deputy governor of working against his boss.

    But Saidu said they were not aware of the existence of any group among the Biu people that goes by such a name, adding that the signatories to the press statement were neither members of the Forum or executives.

    Saidu said, “Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to some faceless people that we are calling for the removal of the deputy governor. Biu Forum is one body that has identified with the giant strides of the current government in Borno State and the deputy governor in particular has influenced lots of projects to Biu area.

    “There is the construction of road projects and the Biu General Hospital which was comatose has been fully rehabilitated. We know that they have stationed drillers in Biu that are currently drilling boreholes from constituency to constituency. There are many other projects that are ongoing in the area.