The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Office, has arrested a member of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon. Adebayo Muhammed, for allegedly obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of about N4 million.
EFCC spokesperson, Mr Tony Orilade, in a press statement, Thursday in Abuja, said Muhammed, who is representing Malete/Ipuru Constituency in the House of Assembly allegedly sold some plots of land which did not belong to him to a group of teachers, sometime in 2015, and issued receipts to the buyers in the name of a non-existent company.
He said the lawmaker had resisted all attempts by his victims to recover their money.
According to him, “The complainants: Mary Kolade, Ezekiel Babatunde, Felicia Adebiyi, Grace Awolola, Julius Omole and Abiodun Balogun, alleged that the suspect sold plots of land to them, which he claimed to be the owner but that they later discovered that the land belonged to the Federal Ministry of Land and Housing.
“After paying about N4 million to the lawmaker, we decided to carry out survey on the plots of land, so as to put our survey number in the Deed of Transfer between him and us but only to discover through the officials of the Kwara State Ministry of Land and Housing that the said plots of land belonged to the Federal Ministry of Land and Housing. Other people who also wanted to develop the plots of land he sold to them were equally barred from constructing anything on it.”
He said Muhammed would soon be charged to court.
