A young man by the name of Destiny Otubambo, has been arraigned before an Ogba Magistrates’ Court for allegedly impersonating a legal practitioner and fraudulently obtaining mobile phones.
Otubambo was arraigned on five counts of stealing, fraud and impersonation. It was learnt that the 27-year-old on May 2018 approached a phone retailer at the Ikota Shopping Complex, Lekki, Ajah, Lagos. It was gathered that he introduced himself as Adeleke, a legal practitioner, and requested a Techno Camon X Pro and iPhone 7plus. He allegedly claimed that he was cashless and wished to pay through online transfer. The suspect was reportedly given an account number, to which the amount would be credited.
After a few minutes, he allegedly claimed that he had transferred the money. To prove that he had sent the money, he allegedly showed a debit alert from Zenith account number 2110746005, titled, Destiny Ayo Adeleke. Believing it to be true, the shop owner reportedly released the phones to him and requested his phone number. It was later discovered that the alert was a fake, while the phone number was unreachable and the account number non-existent. The girlfriend of the suspect, Marian Amuche, whose pictures were downloaded from the suspect’s Instagram page, led detectives to arrest Otubambo. The suspect, in his statement to the police, confessed to the crime, saying he had sold the phones to buyers he met online.
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