Nigeria's anti-graft agency has on Thursday, March 24, arrested a former
Assistant Comptroller General of the Nigeria Fire Service for offences
bordering on employment scam.
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on
Thursday, March 24, 2016 arrested one Dada Olatunji, a former Assistant
Comptroller General of the Nigeria Fire Service for offences bordering
on employment scam.
Olatunji's arrest followed a petition by two applicants - Robert Mathew
and Theresa Abah- alleging 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 (three hundred and fifty
thousand naira) 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.
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.
The suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded
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