18th February, 2018
The Nigeria Police Force, Ogun State Command has arrested an ex-convict, Surajudeen Adeleke Balogun who has been impersonating a director of finance in Ogun on Facebook.
The suspect, who is said to be a fashion designer from ijebu-Ode posed on Facebook as an NNPC staff with the picture of the said finance director through which he has been defrauding members of the public.
The 46-year old Adeleke had earlier been arrested for a similar offence when he duped Bimpe Akinmade of N950,000 having claimed to be an NNPC staff based in Port Hacourt and that the woman should borrow him the said amount to secure the release of his brother who is being detained at Ibara prison with the promise to refund her when he comes back to Abeokuta.
Surajudeen met the victim by pretending to be running an errand for the Port Hacourt-based Director, collected the money and blocked the woman on his Facebook page.
Adeleke was later traced and arrested by the police, charged to court and sentenced to prison.
As soon as he came out of prison, he started his nefarious activities again but luck ran against him when he was trying to defraud another woman on Facebook under the same guise, unknown to him that the woman is a police officer.
The officer played along with him until Saturday February 17 when he was arrested while trying to collect money from the woman.
On interrogation, he confessed to the crime and informed the police that he downloaded the picture of the finance director and use it as his DP in order to deceive his victims.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered that the case be thoroughly investigated and charged to court as soon as possible.
He appealed to members of the public to beware of fraudsters on social media.