Husband & Wife Dupe Lagosians N20m In Fake Auction Sales
Lagos State Police Command has arrested a couple, Mr. Danladi Wushishi,
and Mrs. Ojuolape Wushishi, for allegedly duping unsuspecting victims to
the tune of N20m in fake auction sales in Lagos. Mrs Ojuolape was said
to have been arrested on Wednesday, June 18, at Odeogbolu Street in
Ijegun, the husband Mr Danladi, was apprehended at the Allen Avenue area
of Lagos on Friday, June 25.
46yrs old Danladi, who hails from Niger State, has confessed to the crime:
Punch gathered that the couple were arrested after a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, from one of the victims, Mrs. Chinyere Uzorchukwu, who was duped by the couple to the tune of N5m.
The Wushishis had allegedly collected money from their victims under the false pretext that they had a container load of goods meant for customs auction sales at one of the customs terminals in Lagos.
It was learnt that prior to the incident, the couple normally took their victims to a fake customs’ warehouse in the Ikorodu area of Lagos and showed them containers which were sealed. However, after payments had been made, the victims would wait endlessly expecting their goods, which never came.
Apart from Uzorchukwu, the police said the couple had also duped one Nkechi Anokwuru of about N3.5m and one Mr. Livinus of about N19m in the fake auction deals.
Ojuolape, 48, said her husband dragged her into the fraud mess as she never knew that the container they had in Ikorodu was empty.
She said, “I was a trader at Ikotun. I usually bought goods (clothes) from Dubai and London. I have been doing this business for about seven years. I usually do it with my husband.
“About two months ago, my husband told me that there is an auction paper for second-hand Okrika clothes. So, I spoke with some people, who began to pay. But when we got to Ikorodu, we discovered that no container had Okrika clothes."
"I am a businessman and I am also a freight forwarder at the Tin Can Island, Lagos. I have been doing this business for about eight years. The cargo in question has an allocation paper that read clothes, but when I got there, I saw that it only contained books.
"Then, I called one Alhaji Issa, a clearing agent in Abuja, and he said the clothes could be in another container. But he added that I would pay N3.5m to get it. I then lied to my wife that I needed someone dealing in Okrikaclothes as I had clothes to sell. That was how we met Chinyere. We first collected N1.35m from her, and then N800,000, and then N700,000...
"I also collected N14m from Livinus in same transaction. But I never received any container since I started collecting money from this people. My wife is not aware that I was duping them."
Punch gathered that the couple were arrested after a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, from one of the victims, Mrs. Chinyere Uzorchukwu, who was duped by the couple to the tune of N5m.
The Wushishis had allegedly collected money from their victims under the false pretext that they had a container load of goods meant for customs auction sales at one of the customs terminals in Lagos.
It was learnt that prior to the incident, the couple normally took their victims to a fake customs’ warehouse in the Ikorodu area of Lagos and showed them containers which were sealed. However, after payments had been made, the victims would wait endlessly expecting their goods, which never came.
Apart from Uzorchukwu, the police said the couple had also duped one Nkechi Anokwuru of about N3.5m and one Mr. Livinus of about N19m in the fake auction deals.
Ojuolape, 48, said her husband dragged her into the fraud mess as she never knew that the container they had in Ikorodu was empty.
She said, “I was a trader at Ikotun. I usually bought goods (clothes) from Dubai and London. I have been doing this business for about seven years. I usually do it with my husband.
“About two months ago, my husband told me that there is an auction paper for second-hand Okrika clothes. So, I spoke with some people, who began to pay. But when we got to Ikorodu, we discovered that no container had Okrika clothes."
She is begging for pardon because her husband tricked her.
