Banker Seeking Fast-Money Defrauded by Herbalist of N2.5m

People looking for fast money are lazy and mostly get burnt. A herbalist, Seye Olufokunbi, has confessed how he defrauded a Lagos banker, identified as Lekan, of his N2.5million.

The 33-year-old herbalist said he told Lekan, who worked in one of the banks on the Victoria Island, that the money was for a special soap.

He told the banker that the soap, when kept in a box for two days, would produce a lot of money.

The money magic was said to have failed, leading to a petition to the Lagos State Police Command’s Rapid Response Squad in February 2016.

The operatives went into action, trailed the suspect until he was eventually arrested at his base in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State.

The herbalist, who spoke with Punch at the command headquarters in Ikeja on Tuesday, said he was initially selling herbs to Lekan before the banker told him to perform money ritual for him.

He said, “I have known Lekan for a long time and he is my customer. He was initially patronising me for herbs for his ailment.

“But he later approached me for money ritual, saying the money he was making as a banker was not enough for him. I said I could do it if he could give me N2.5m. He brought the money and I gave him a bar of soap. I told him to keep the soap in a box for two days, after which he should check the box and he would see a lot of money.

“He did that, but it failed, he then reported me to the police, who arrested me.”

The suspect, who claimed to have been into the job since 2011, said he was a member of a syndicate. He said that he got N500,000 from the money Banker Lekan paid, while the rest of the money was shared among the group members.

“I was initiated into this job by my brother. I was doing it because after I studied Business Administration in 2002 in a polytechnic in Oyo State, I couldn’t get any good job,” he added.

Police spokesperson said the herbalist would be charged to court at the end of investigation.