A jobless 39-year-old man, Tayo Ogunleye, has been captured by the Oyo State Police Command for purportedly cheating occupation searchers by guaranteeing to be the promoting administrator of Shoprite, a retail location on Ring Road, Ibadan.
The state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, said the presume guaranteed his casualties non-existing occupations at the store on the off chance that they paid certain measure of cash to him.
As per the CP, the speculate for the most part issued his casualties counterfeit arrangement letters after they finished the installment, and sought refuge.
Odude stated, "The suspect, who acted like the advertising director of Shoprite, swindled 28 complainants by promising them occupations that never existed. He acquired different entireties of cash from them and to persuade them, he issued a few phony arrangement letters on the letterhead of the multi-national organization.
"His capture at the Apata region of Ibadan on January 31, 2018, took after a grumbling made against him at a police headquarters by Yusuf Yekeen, who was one of Ogunleye's various casualties."
A portion of the casualties revealed to PUNCH Metro that the presume took them round the organization as though he would offer them contracts to settle some foundation.
One of them, who just recognized himself as Adeola, stated, "I am a building architect and I additionally handle inside improvement. He took me there (Shoprite) and we went round together. He said a few shops required repairs and new ones should have been built. He additionally said augmentation work would soon start at the complex.
"He gave me the feeling that he was responsible for getting the occupations out as a supervisor of the organization. I trusted him since things were hard for me and I required an occupation to bolster my family. The economy of as far as possible employment offers for craftsmans like me since individuals are worried about burning through cash on nourishment, school charges and other more vital things than building houses or settling insides of their homes.
"He later entered a shop and said he needed to examine with somebody. I thought we were to enter together, yet he requesting that I hold up outside.