The Lagos State Police has arrested two of the three fraudsters who allegedly almost defrauded a 64-year-old bank customer of N690,000 on Friday.
The Lagos state police command public relations officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin disclosed this in a tweet on Saturday.
According to him, the bank cashier noticed an anomaly in the behavior of the old woman before enquiring and discovered she was been forced to withdraw the sum of N600,000, after already giving them N90,000 before entering the bank.
The cashier immediately contacted police officers who arrested two of the three fraudsters, with one absconding.
The Lagos Police PR said, “Yesterday at about 1550hrs, a bank cashier noticed that a 64-year old customer was fidgety, receiving repeated calls and was in a hurry to withdraw N600,000. The cashier asked what the problem was and the woman said she would die if she talked.
“Police officers from Ogudu Division were quickly contacted. Of the three fraudsters waiting outside, Uche Awaize ‘m’ aged 45 and Osadebe Aigbe ‘m’ aged 35 were arrested. The third suspect bolted.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects had first collected N90,000 from the woman. Effort is on to arrest the other gang member.
Hundeyin added that while investigations were ongoing, the photo of the arrested criminals would still be available to the public in order to apprehend the third and maybe recover the stolen money.
“PS: Let’s leave their faces open this time so that previous victims can identify & testify against them, and maybe recover their money…”, he added.
