The victim was deceived through calls purportedly by a
former acquaintance, Patrick Abah, a fellow she met during her National Youth
Service orientation in 2009, into making the payments to enable her secure
employment for her son with Shell Petroleum Company in Port Harcourt.
The supposed Patrick had asked if she would like to
work with Shell in Port Harcourt as they were recruiting. Mary said she would
like the job for her son and the fraudster promised to assist her through his
in-law, Okoh Ayabaye, an Engineer with Shell. She was then asked to pay
the sum of N830, 000.00 into two accounts: a First Bank account belonging to
Okoh Ayabaye and a Diamond Bank account belonging to Alamabo Teneilabe.
It dawned on her that she had been duped when the job
was not forthcoming after the payment had been made. Consequently, she
petitioned the EFCC. The anti- graft agency launched its investigations which
culminated in the arrest of one of the account owners, Alamabo Teneilabe.
Teneilabe however claimed he knew nothing about
the fraud. He said he only gave his number to his colleague, Gift Onyegam who
told him that he need the account to enable his sister remit some money to him
as Diamond Bank was the only bank operating where she lives. He claimed he
acquiesced to the request after Gift promised to give him N3, 000 from the
money he expecting from the sister, that he never knew he was going to use his
account for any fraudulent purpose.
Teneilabe’s arrest, paved way for the arrest of
Gift Onyegam who confessed to having committed the fraud. He admitted getting
Mary Rose Ihekanacho’s details from the Corpers’ year book and presenting
himself as Abah Patrick when he spoke to Mary Rose Ihekanacho.
Gift also admitted to have received the sum of N830,
000.00 from Ihekanacho to give her employment and that he used the money to
purchase a bus which according to him, got burnt after about three months.
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