Ex-Kwara councillor in EFCC net over financial crimes

A former councillor in Ekiti local government area of Kwara state, Samuel Opeyemi Adeojo, is now in the net of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The former councillor, according to EFCC, was fingered as the leader of a car theft syndicate notorious for stealing vehicles from car dealers through pretence as genuine buyers.

The Ibadan zone EFCC was said to be on Adeojo’s trail until his arrest, following series of petitions against his gang’s criminal activities with no fewer than three cases of car theft established against the syndicate and all the vehicles involved recovered and kept in EFCC custody in Ibadan.

According to EFCC, investigations revealed that the gang deploys similar pattern of tricks to steal vehicles from their victims and that its findings revealed that  Adeojo often pretends to be a medical doctor, adopting different names and different institutions as his place of work to appear responsible and create false sense of confidence to penetrate the victims.

EFCC stressed that one of the many cases reported involved a Toyota Avensis wagon car in which Adeojo claimed to be one Dr. Gboyega Omojola of the University College Hospital, Ibadan reported to the EFCC, Ibadan office on March 23, 2019, by Tunde Adejuwon, an Ibadan-based car dealer.

According to the petitioner, ‘Dr. Omojola’ had come in company of one Babatunde  Oluwatope Oni, his supposed driver, to his stand to negotiate for the car and later agreed to pay N2 million for it.

After the agreement, ‘Dr. Omojola’ issued N2 million Skye Bank cheque ostensibly in favour of the dealer and ordered his ‘driver’ to pay it into his Zenith Bank account at Bodija, Ibadan.

EFCC sources said Adeojo and his gang will soon be arraigned in court by the Commission.

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