The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office on February 20, 2019, arrested one Azeez Afolayan Yakubu for impersonating the Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (Retd) and using his name to scam job seekers.
According to EFCC, Azeez Afolayan was arrested by EFCC operatives on March 5, 2019, following complaints from one of his victims.
Trouble started for him when a staff of the Customs Service, Hasaan Garba Muhammed petitioned the EFCC, accusing him of defrauding innocent Nigerians, seeking employment into the Service. Azeez Afolayan had so far defrauded them of about N1 million.
Under interrogation, Azeez Afolayan admitted to the crime. He said:
“I started duping people since 2017 up till date, I duped about five people, I collected different amount of money from my victims and all of them used to transfer money to my bank accounts.
“I used to tell them that I will help them to secure employment with the Nigerian Customs Services, but I was just scamming.”
Some of the items recovered from him include Nigerian Customs Service Application Forms, Customs employment letters, passports of some job seekers among others.
Azeez Afolayan will soon be charged to court.