{"id":15887,"date":"2019-03-05T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15887"},"modified":"2019-03-05T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:38:00","slug":"employment-scam-efcc-arrests-customs-officer-impersonating-comptroller-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15887","title":{"rendered":"Employment Scam: EFCC Arrests Customs officer Impersonating Comptroller-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy\u00a0<strong>Tony Orilade,<\/strong> Ag. Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC<br \/>\nThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office on February 20, 2019, arrested one Azeez Yakubu Afolayan for impersonating the Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd) and using his name to scam job seekers.<br \/>\nAfolayan was arrested by EFCC operatives on March 5, 2019 following complaints from one of his victims.<br \/>\nTrouble 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. He had so far defrauded them of about N1 million.<br \/>\nUnder interrogation, he admitted to the crime.<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cI 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.<br \/>\n\u201cI used to tell them that I will help them to secure employment with the Nigerian Custom Services, but I was just scamming.\u201d<br \/>\nSome of the items recovered from him include, Nigerian Customs Service Application Forms, Customs employment letters, passports of some job seekers among others.<br \/>\nHe will soon be charged to court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By\u00a0Tony Orilade, Ag. Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office on February 20, 2019, arrested one Azeez Yakubu Afolayan for impersonating the Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd) and using his name to scam job seekers. Afolayan was arrested by EFCC operatives on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}