Fraud: 3 arrested for allegedly impersonating Sunny Ade
Detectives attached to the Lagos State Command have arrested three members of a syndicate that allegedly used the name of Afro-Juju icon, Sunday Adegeyi (aka King Sunny Ade KSA) to swindle unsuspecting victims of several millions of naira. The police said the suspects, two men and a young girl, were being interrogated at the Special […]
Detectives attached to the Lagos State Command have arrested three members of a syndicate that allegedly used the name of Afro-Juju icon, Sunday Adegeyi (aka King Sunny Ade KSA) to swindle unsuspecting victims of several millions of naira.
The police said the suspects, two men and a young girl, were being interrogated at the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of the Lagos State Police Command.
The police said the leader of the gang opened an Instagram page with Sunny Ade’s name, advertising that KSA would want to assist interested people to travel on music tours to Europe, America and Asia.
It was learnt that the gang leader, one Oyedekun (aka Law) also wrote on the Instagram page that those who were interested in the tour should pay from N50,000 to N100,000 depending on the area of interest.
A senior police officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity said: “Just like magic, people began to pay money into the accounts the syndicate provided and they were withdrawing the money daily and promising to contact the victims as at when due.
“It was while people were paying that those who were close to KSA notified him of the development. Some of his fans and close associates started thanking him for trying to assist the youth.
“KSA now raised the alarm that people were using his name to swindle innocent citizens and reported the matter to the police at SIB and our operatives tracked the suspects to Ibadan and Oyo town in Oyo State where they were arrested. N95,000 was recovered from the suspects because they were withdrawing the loot daily.”
Oyedekun was said to have admitted to collecting over N3.5 million through the fraud.