Former Deputy Governor of Lagos state, Sinatu Ojikutu, was
on Tuesday arrested at her Lagos Island residence by the Special Fraud Unit of the
Nigeria Police.
Mrs. Ojikutu, who was declared wanted by the
unit on June 19, 2013 in connection with the case of obtaining the sum of N130m
from one Cajethan Okekearu, was alleged to have committed the crime in
connivance with her son, Samuel Ojikutu Jnr, now residing in the United States.
The news of her arrest was broken in a press release from
the Police Public Relations Officer of Lagos state command, Ms. Ngozi Isintume-Agu.
“The suspect and her son were parties to the sale of the
land and both signed the agreement given to the Complainant and obtained the
sum of N130 million from him.
“She admitted the crime but claimed that it was a genuine
mistake of plot identification. She refunded the sum of N50m to the complainant
and promised to refund the balance as soon as she disposed her two properties
she put up for sale. She also confessed that she had injected the Complainant’s
money in her business.
“She equally made an undertaking and payment plan, which was
drawn from September 2012 and was to terminate by November 2012, but she
defaulted due to lack of fund,” the release stated.
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