The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arrested a former Assistant Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Fire Service , Mr. Dada Olatunji for offences bordering on employment scam.
Also picked up was one Christopher Adaje, who was said to be an accomplice of the ex-Fire Service chief.
As of press time, the two suspects, who
have been detained by the anti-graft agency, were being grilled on how
they established the scam syndicate.
According to a statement by the Head of Media and Publicity of EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren,
the arrest of the suspect followed a petition by two applicants,Robert Mathew and Theresa Abah.
The statement said: “The applicants
alleged that sometime in December 2014, one Christopher Adaje, an
officer at the Nyanya Office of the agency informed them of a
recruitment exercise purportedly going on and promised to facilitate
their employment into the Service before April, 2015 if they could part
with N350, 000.00 each.
“Matthew and Abah who were desperate to
get employment, but could not afford the said sum, resorted to
soliciting for help from their friends and loved ones.
“The suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.”
“Eventually, Matthew was able to source
his from a friend while Abah took a loan of N225,000.00 (two hundred and
twenty five thousand) from her friend, to meet Adaje’s demand to offer
them job.
“Altogether, a total of N575,000 (five
hundred and seventy five thousand naira) was raised by Matthew and Abah
which was paid into an account supplied by Adaje in one of the old
generation banks.
“Months after, Adaje could not deliver
on his promise, a situation that prompted the applicants to visit his
office where they discovered it was fraud.
“On arrest, Adaje confessed that, he was fronting for Olatunji whom he claimed, the money was given to.
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