Primary School Certificate Holder Dupes SAN

A 53-year-old primary school certificate holder, Moses
Olayemi, has been arraigned before an Ikeja High Court for defrauding a Senior
Advocate of Nigeria.

Olayemi, who was charged with two counts of conspiracy to
commit felony, was alleged to have defrauded Dr Aliyu Salimon (SAN) under the
pretext of conducting a National Assembly screening for a Federal Government
appointment.

According to Dr Salimon, he was coerced into paying N2.5
million into a Skye Bank account, only for him to realise that he had been
duped.

“I was on my way to Ibadan from Ilorin for an INEC case when
I received a call from someone who claimed that he was the Chairman of a  committee compiling the list of people to be
given Federal Government appointment.

“He asked me to send my CV, which I did from a nearby cyber
cafe. He then asked me to pay N150,000 for him to get security report about
me,” he said.

The learned SAN, however, pointed out that after several
conversations on phone, he sent N2.5 million to an account belonging to one
Moses Babatunde, adding that he paid the money, believing it would help him get
a better job.

“I paid the money thinking it would help me get a better
job. It was after I paid the money that I was told that the job had been given
to someone else,” he said.

In his own statement, the accused, Moses Olayemi, denied the
accusations, adding that he never collected any money from the SAN.

“My friend, Akpan, asked me if I have a Skye Bank account
but since I did not have one, I got that of my friend Babatunde. It was when we
went to withdraw the money that we were apprehended and handed over to EFCC,”
he said.

The accused was denied bail by Justice Lawal Akapo on the
grounds that he is a convicted criminal who jumped bail in Kano State and fled
to Lagos.