A 27-year-old Salami Oluwatobi who impersonated Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos has been arraigned before an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrate’s court in Lagos for allegedly duping a woman of 15 million naira under the disguise of helping her secure a slot at the Lekki Free Airport Investment.
According to the prosecutor Inspector Adebayo Oladede, the defendant, and others still at large, committed the offence sometime in August 2016, at 8, Olokonla Street, along Ajah, in Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos.
Oladele during the proceeding said “the defendant falsely presented himself to the complainant as the Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu, who is entrusted with the said proposed Lekki Airport Investment; the defendant dishonestly stole the said sum from the complainant, an offence punishable under Sections 409, 312 and 380(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, as amended.
