Fake Wizkid Arrested For Over 65,000 Dollars Fraud.
The Lagos State Police Command two days ago arrested a 19-year-old girl who posed as music star, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizkid, on social media and defrauded many people of over $65,000, equivalent of about N12.9million.
Fresh facts have emerged of the lady's identity, how the young lady operated and how she was exactly caught.
This is following a recent scandal where a show promoting agency, Humble Entertainment, openly blasted Wizkid for failing to perform at its event despite being paid.
In a statement, the company claimed that, ‘despite going through all the necessary requirements to book Wizkid which included signing a contract and paying the required fee, we have been let down by the booking/management parties’.
Sunday Are, Wizkid's manager denied knowledge of the show while Wizkid kept mum on the issue as well. Instead, he is said to have complained to the police commissioner that someone had been impersonating him and collecting money for shows.
The police swung into action and the 19-year-old suspect, identified as Ifeoma Nelly was arrested. She is said to be a student of Industrial Chemistry at the Delta State University. She was arrested through the combined efforts of Wizkid’s Manager, Mr. Sunday Are, policemen from Lagos and an Australian when she came to Lagos to collect part payment of $25,000 from some Australians at a hotel in Lagos, so that Wizkid would go to Australia to perform.
The suspect was said to use to collect payment via electronic, but because she was desperate to get her hands on the $25,000, she decided to this time, meet the Australian one on one. She reportedly came in company of two friends, a lady and a guy. Unknown to her, policemen had been planted in the hotel. So, when she walked into the hotel with her friends, thinking she was on the verge of meeting the Australian and sailing away $25,000, she walked into the waiting arms of policemen and Are.
Revealing how the suspect was arrested, Are said the lady said she had been posing on Facebook and defrauding people for three years, using Wizkid. When asked if she had other members assisting her, Nelly insisted that she was the only one running the show.
OUR UNRELIABLE APROKO reports the suspect said she had dreams to be Wizkid's baby mama but since she couldn't get the opportunity to do that she decided to impersonate the Star Boy.
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