Oyo state government Wednesday arrested a middle aged man, said to be a cyber cafe operator in Oyo township for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting applicants into the recruitment of Oyo State Security Network, codenamed Amotekun.
The middle-aged man identified as Adeyemi Agboola who owned a cyber café along Durbar Stadium road, Oyo Township, was reportedly nabbed with eleven fake recruitment forms.
He was reported to be selling the forms to his victims at the rate of N500 per copy, with the promise of assisting them in getting the job.
Upon his arrest, the middle aged man claimed that he utilised the opportunity to extort the victims only for one of his victims to be arrested with the fake form at the venue of the screening.
Speaking on the arrest of the cyber cafe operator, the
Commandant of the Amotekun operations, Colonel Olayanju Olayinka (Rtd) vowed that the middle aged man would face the law.
“It is very unfortunate that people can still take advantage of others on recruitment exercise just because the victims are unlettered. We shall dig more to know the number of victims that have fallen for the antics of this man,” he said.
Colonel Olayinka stated that the middle aged man has been handed over to the appropriate prosecuting agency, asking members of the public to be wary of individuals that would always want to take advantage of others in the society because the victims were educationally deficient.
“We have handed him over to the appropriate prosecuting security agency and he shall serve as deterrence to others that might want to thread this bad way. The state government has been working non-stop to alleviate poverty and sundry social issues affecting our people, but we will not allow the common people to be cheated by those who think they are cunning.”
He urged those interested in joining Amotekun from other zones in the state to desist from cutting corners and be wary of the cyber operators they patronise for registration.
The screening exercise team proceeded to Ogbomoso zone for the exercise that would hold Thursday at Ogbomoso Township stadium, while Ogbomoso north and south participants would be screened on Friday, while the screening of participants from Surulere local government was billed to hold on Saturday, also at the Ogbomoso Township stadium.
