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 haveone, 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.

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