A US-based Nigerian businessman was stunned in Lagos, when land agents drove him to the lagoon after the part-payment for 150 plots offered for N787.5 million.
Kennedy Chukwuemeka Nwabuoku told detectives led by DCP Abutu Yaro, at the Force Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (FCIID), Alagbon, how he had paid N577, 590, 792 in portions among different charges, in addition to another N18million for bramble clearing in February, and how the businessman were sending him pictures and recordings of caterpillars in real life at the indicated site at Ifedele Agunbiade Village, Sangotedo, in Eti-Osa zone of Lagos.
Nwabuoku told the police that he purchased the inconspicuous land with a remote accomplice and had paid in trustee confide in, sending monies on various events through his organization, KenBouk Global Investment Ltd.
Emeka Okoronkwo and Michael Owolabi Alonge, the agents, as indicated by Nwabuoku, had offered the land available to be purchased at N5, 250, 000 for each plot with Certificate of Occupancy (C of O).
It was gathered that individuals from Nwabuoku's family in Nigeria who needed to see the site were informed that the land was in a territory purchased by noticeable
Nigerians like previous President Olusegun Obasanjo and Oba Riliwanu Akiolu, and it was cordoned off so customary nationals couldn't obtain entrance.
Nigerians like previous President Olusegun Obasanjo and Oba Riliwanu Akiolu, and it was cordoned off so customary nationals couldn't obtain entrance.
When he ended up noticeably suspicious, Nwabuoku sent the C of O to a companion to confirm, and the companion found that no such land or area portrayed in the record existed.
He chose to visit Nigeria and examine the land for which he had paid the property specialist, Okoronkwo, who was distinguished as proprietor of Kings Court Realtors at Plot 321A, Akin Ogunlewe Street, Victoria Island.
When he was tested by the police on November 8, 2017, Okoronkwo professedly conceded that he gathered N603, 000, 000 for 100 plots, office expenses and legitimate charges through exchanges to Kings Court Realtors' records in two banks.
Detectives found that Nwabuoku moved the monies in the accompanying request over a period: N229, 000, 000, N86, 000, 000, N120, 000, 000, N41, 300, 000, N11, 291, 000, and N90, 000, 000.
They likewise found that the C of O given to Nwabuoku is a phony one, and that Alonge who acquainted him with Okoronkwo "planned the extortion".
As per the investigators, imaginary people were recorded in the Deed of Assignment that the presumed fraudsters likewise provided for Nwabuoku.
At the point when Nwabuoku arrived and demanded he should see the site before facilitate installments, Alonge professedly took him to an area far inside a lush range that prompted the tidal pond with kayaks backpedaling and forward. "Mr Michael Owolabi Alonge began pointing around and towards the tidal pond, as though he didn't know where the land is any longer," Nwabuoku expressed in his request of to the police.
Whenever Nwabuoku, who had been given no receipt, requested a discount, he said that the suspects had debilitated to slaughter him on the off chance that he neglects to stay silent on the exchange.
Investigators have finished their examination and the issue has been accused to court of Sgt Morufu Animashaun as police legal counselor.
There was an arrest warrant for Okoronkwo who purportedly got the installments, and he will show up in court on December 5.
The case is pending before Chief Magistrate (Mrs) Abimbola Komolafe of Magistrate Court 3, Igbosere, in Lagos.
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