by Akan Ido

Olayinka Ajiwon, a 42-year-old trained tailor has landed in police net for duping unsuspecting victims and obtaining money from them through false pretence.

Ajiwon, a resident of 14 Oluwakemi Street, Ilasa, a Lagos suburb, said he was duped of the $7,000 he hoped to start a new life with when he returned from Libya, an unfortunate incident which pushed him into engaging in the same ‘business’.

“We are only four, Innocent, Sunny and Uche and a woman known as mama ‘G’. I was a tailor before they met me and lured me into the ‘obtaining job’,” he reportedly said.

“The first job, we got N60,000 from the victim at Ilasa. He paid it twice. The second one at the same Ilasa, the victim could not produce any kobo, the third one was what brought me here,” he said.

Narrating the group’s mode of operation, he said they approached a girl at Ojota, a Lagos suburb, in early October and told her almost everything that happened to her in the last few days.

They go on to order the victim to steal her employer’s valuables, a task which she did bringing them gold which they reportedly sold for N5m. Ajiwon got N1m of the illegal proceeds.

The suspect who is in the custody of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command, was arrested after three “operations.” He was arrested on December 13, 2012 in Ayobo, a Lagos suburb for obtaining a gold said to be worth N50m.

He narrated his arrest by the operatives of SARS saying, “They came home to arrest one of my brothers, Bolaji, in connection with the theft but they met me in the house. I was arrested and the police later released my younger brother.”