Ayokunle Ibikunle, 34 , a graduate of Animal Health and Reproduction at Federal College of Animal Health, Ibadan, Oyo State, conned his longtime business partner, Mrs Felicia Oketokun, a poultry farm produce dealer, by claiming he had 3,000 poultry birds for sale at Seion Farms in Olorunda, Ibadan.
After negotiations, Oketokun sent one of her workers to Seion’s Farms where he met with Ayo and inspected the birds. Oketokun’s staffer was said to have requested for Seion Farms account details but Ibikunle convinced him to pay the money into the bank account of his friend, Saeed.
Immediately Oketokun paid the N2.7M, he went with Saeed to withdraw it and went underground, living largely in hotels in Ibadan, Abuja and Lagos. He was consequently arrested on March 29, 2016. Narrating his story he said: “I am from Ekiti State.
I used N750,000 from the money to process my travelling documents to South Africa. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out; so I gave N400,000 to an acquaintance, Kasali, to supply me cattle to begin my cattle farm. I spent the balance on miscellaneous things like travelling and staying in hotels.”…. I was even planning to use d remaining N50k to arrange one fresh olosho, b4 I was nabbed…. Cc: Vanguradngr
