Fraud: 32-Year Old ‘Yahoo Boy’ Lands In Mandala Prison, Kwara State

Fraud: 32-Year Old ‘Yahoo Boy’ Lands In Mandala Prison, Kwara State

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin,
the state capital, on Thursday, March 28, 2019 remanded one Wale
Oladoja, a 32-year-old suspected internet fraudster in Mandala Prison,
Ilorin.

Oladoja is being prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on six-count charges
that border on advance fee fraud and other fraud-related offences.

One of the charges reads, “That you, Wale Oladoja (alias Liisha
Conni), sometime in March 2019, at Ilorin, within the judicial division
of the Kwara State High Court, with intent to defraud, had in your
possession a document containing false pretence, to with: Hangout with
Singh Ranjeet, containing representations you knew to be false and
thereby committed an offence in Sections 6 and 8(b) of the Advance Fee
Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under
Section 1(3) of the same Act.”

Oladoja pleaded not guilty to all the six-count charges. Lead counsel
to the defence, T. A. Hammed, however, drew the attention of the judge
to a pending bail application for his client.

In his response, the prosecuting counsel, Andrew Akoja called Justice
Oyinloye’s attention to a counter-affidavit against the bail
application. Justice Oyinloye thereafter dismissed the bail application
and ordered the defendant to be remanded in Mandala Prison custody, as
he said that the defence failed to convince the court with reasons why
the bail request should be granted.