Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, former deputy governor of Lagos has been arrested by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police Force over a N130 million land scam.
the deputy governor is said to have connived with her son, Samson Ojikutu Jnr to defraud one Cajethan Okekearu.
The Unit’s Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Isintume-Agu, said in a signed statement, “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.”