37yrs old Muritala Oladipupo calls
himself an itinerant Islamic preacher who also attends to people who come to
him for consultations on spiritual matters.
But going by the revelation of one
Mutiat Azeez, who said that the self-acclaimed preacher swindled her on the
pretext of praying for her, Oladipupo would have a lot of explanations to make
to police detectives at the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Oyo State Police
Command where he is currently undergoing interrogations.
According to Crime Reports, the
cleric was arrested in a mosque in Ibadan on August 28 after Azeez told the
police that he defrauded her of N700,000 when she was deceived into believing
that he was an Islamic preacher who could help her with prayers to solve
spiritual problems.
According to information gathered,
Oladipupo adopted a method of proposing love to a potential victim so that it
would be easy for him to penetrate her. He reportedly used this method with the
victim and collected some money from her before his arrest.
When interviewed by Crime Reports,
the suspect confirmed the allegation, disclosing that he learnt the method from
two men, Abdulwaheed and Ola Shehu, whom he met at a mechanic workshop.
Speaking with Crime Reports, he
said: “I was a Quranic teacher but later became an itinerant Islamic preacher
delivering sermons. I fell into trouble when my former girlfriend asked me to
carry out some rites for her to attack someone who swindled her. She became
angry when she did not get the expected result.
“I knew her about seven years ago
and I expressed interest in her. I collected N360,000 from her but I also
borrowed her N100,000. It is not true that I took N700,000 from her. The money
she gave me was to buy the ingredients that would be needed for the prayers and
the rites to be performed.
“It was Waheed who introduced the
idea of deceiving women by proposing marriage to them so that they could be
easily swindled. The victim would be disclosing her problems which I would
capitalise on to obtain money from her. Waheed said he gave the advice because
most clients are not usually appreciative after getting solutions to their
problems. I used to share the money given to me with the two men.”
Oladipupo confessed to being a
fraudster and spoke on how the lady was taken to a river in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti
State, to bathe in a river. The suspect also said he invited two female
syndicate members, Seun and Abibat, who dressed like white witches and prayed
for the victim at the river side.
“It is true I took her to Ekiti to
have a spiritual bath to cure her of bad dreams. I asked Seun and Abibat to
join her at the river side because they were women. They prayed for her and I
paid them N10,000 each. They were introduced to me by one Ahmad who is also a
fraudster based in Ado Ekiti. I knew Ahmad through Waheed and Ola Shehu,” he
stated.
The victim was also reportedly taken
to a shrine at Moniya area of Ibadan where a pipe was laid underground and
someone at one end spoke into it, the sound of which echoed like that of a spirit
at the other end of the pipe in a room.
Narrating how she met the suspect,
the victim said he was in his vehicle at Olorunsogo area of Ibadan when he saw
her and called her. This was confirmed by the suspect who said “I proposed love
to her and she accepted. In the course of our relationship, she revealed her
problems to me and asked me to pray for her and do other rites that would make
her overcome them. I told her that I would help her solve her problems and
started getting money from her through this.”
The man, who is said to be one of
the assistants working with a popular Islamic preacher in Ibadan, disclosed
that his boss did not know he was into fraud.
Police say he would be charged to
court
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