NOUN Student Nabbed Over Fraud

A student of the National Open
University, Osogbo Study Centre, has
been arrested for alleged fraud.
Olusola Akinlotan, a student of the National Open University, Osogbo Study Centre, has
been arrested by the Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
for alleged fraud.
The NSCDC also arrested two other
suspects who were members of a fraud
syndicate; Olayiwola Oladayo and
Bolarinwa Adebayo, a.k.a. Dodo.
Akinlotan, who was said to have
abandoned his studies at the university
when he was declared wanted by the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, was, however, arrested on
Monday when he approached NOUN to
transfer his study centre to another
location outside the state.
The suspect and other members of the
gang were said to have been engaged in
defrauding unsuspecting persons by
arranging fake visas and travel
documents for them.
According to a statement by the NSCDC,
they duped an Enugu based
businessman, Nnamchi Nichodemus, of a
sum of N700,000 through a dubious
travelling transaction in November 2014.
The businessman was said to have been
tricked into paying the said money into
an account belonging to Akinlotan, who
was promised a sum of N105,000.
The NOUN student was said to have
immediately gone to the bank to collect
the money through the Automated Teller
Machine and the counter. He allegedly
handed over the balance to Oladayo for
onward transmission to Adebayo a.k.a.
Dodo.
The statement read, “Akinlotan, who was
arrested within the premises of the 0pen
university, while trying to process his
transfer of study centre to another
location outside Osun State, led the
NSCDC to the hideouts of the other two
suspects.
“Desperate to get off the hook, the
suspects offered bribe to the NSCDC
officers who arrested them, but they
turned down the bribe in line with the
principle of the corps.
“The suspects have since been handed
over to the EFCC by the state
Commandant of the NSCDC, Tajudeen
Balogun, for prosecution.”