Cadet footballer, 2 others arrested for alleged Internet fraud

A member of the feeder team of the popular Ibadan-based Shooting Stars Sports Club, otherwise known as 3SC, Oluwaseyi Dayo Oginni, was on Monday arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office, over alleged involvement in internet-related offences.

Oginni was arrested alongside his brother-in-law, Alabi Okikiola, and a friend, Jonas Okwuwe, at a location in Fortune Estate, Ologuneru Olonde area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Our correspondent learnt that their arrest followed a petition from a neighbour of theirs who had raised suspicion on the “reckless and flamboyant” lifestyles of the suspects, “without any known reasonable source of income.”

Upon the receipt of the petition and further discreet investigation, operatives of the Commission carried out an early morning operation that led to their arrest on Monday.

Further investigation confirmed that Oginni was truly a member of the popular soccer team’s feeder team, but an official said he had not been attending training for a long while.

In their separate statements to the Commission, Oginni said he was an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) Part 1 student at the Oyo State-owned polytechnic in Ibadan, Okwuwe claimed to be a Computer Science graduate from the Auchi Polytechnic, while Okikiola, said he had a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accounting, also from The Polytechnic Ibadan.

Items alleged to have been recovered from the suspects included laptops, Iphones and phones of other brands.