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How Suspected Drug Addict Arrested in Ibadan for Fraud One Week after Leaving Prison
Suspected Drug Addict Arrested in Ibadan for Fraud One Week after Leaving Prison
THE adage, ‘One day for the thief, every day for the owner,’ recently came to bear on a 28-year-old man, Oluwanisola Quadri, when he was apprehended by personnel of Oluyole Security Surveillance Team in Ibadan, Oyo state, after he had duped many Point of Sale (PoS) operators and traders while pretending to have transferred money to their accounts through bank apps.
His style of operation was to approach a PoS operator to ask for cash while he would transfer the money collected, including the usual commission due to the operator to them through his bank app.
However, all he was doing was to copy a credit alert in his phone, change the name in it to that of the person he was interacting with, change the date and time and forward it to the person’s number to make believe it was a credit alert from his bank.
Claiming that he started the fraudulent act in June, Quadri was able to succeed for some time until he was arrested by Ashi Division of the Oyo State Police Command in September and charged to court.
Unable to fulfill bail conditions, the suspect was remanded in Agodi Correctional Centre, Ibadan, and was there till late November when some fellow inmates helped him to get sureties and fulfill other bail conditions to set him free. However, immediately he regained freedom, he started the act again as a result of his claim that he had no money to survive on.
Quadri, who was suspected to be a drug addict and high on the illicit substances, was like someone in a trance when speaking with the Nigerian Tribune, drawling and barely audible.
Reports had it that the suspect took to drugs after he got admission into Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, and became so addicted that he used his school fees paid by his father to consume it.
It got to a stage that he had to opt out of school when he was not allowed to sit for examinations without paying his fees. His father, said to be a popular petrol dealer in Saki Town, was said to have discovered his son’s addiction to drugs when he found that he was using the money given to him for his tuition fees to take drugs. The drug addiction stopped him from taking some of his examinations while he could not also graduate because of the fees he was owing.
Despite the sadness and frustration he brought, his father reportedly did a lot to cure him of the addiction by sending him to a rehabilitation centre. Leaving after spending three months at the centre, Quadri went back into drugs. Eventually, he started practising fraud to get money to purchase the illicit substances.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that the suspect would go to Point of Sale operators, collect cash and send fake receipt of credit alert to them, pretending to have paid back the money he collected.
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