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Monday, January 13, 2020

Man Arrested For Using Hanan Buhari's Simcard Reportedly Used It Fraudulently

Details have emerged of the offence allegedly committed by Okolie Ifediukwude Anthony, who reportedly used a phone number with the name of President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter Hanan.......




Sunday Vanguard investigation has also shown that the suspect, who has since been freed by the Department of State Services (DSS), is not a fish farm investor as claimed but a labourer who is paid a pittance on a pay-as-you-work basis by the owner of the fish farm.

Documents exclusively sighted by Sunday Vanguard showed that the suspect, Okolie Ifediukwude Anthony, a native of Umuezei Quarters of Asaba, Delta State, was working in a small fish farm owned by one John Freeman in Otuogwu and paid a daily wage by the owner before he was caught for using the phone for criminal pursuits.

The document also indicates that before he ventured into the fish farm business, Okolie Anthony was involved in betting game business, which he later gave up on the grounds that it was not profitable.

“I did sales of recharge with my sister now married for a while before my uncle opened a betting shop for me to serve as an agent from 2016-2018. I later sold the shop because the business was not moving and was not bringing profit,” Okolie confessed in the document seen by Sunday Vanguard.

“I am currently searching for job but managing a small fish pond with Mr John Freeman in his compound located at Otuogwu, Asaba, Delta State and paid a small amount of money each day I visit the farm and also help out in doing some writing for the owner since his age does not allow him to hold bird and write,” Okolie said.

On how he came about the SIM that bears the name Hanan Buhari, Okolie said he bought the Subscribers Identification Module, SIM, from a roadside shop in Asaba having misplaced his previous number without knowing that the original owner had the name registered by the service provider.

Okolie confessed however that he was shocked to discover that each time he made calls with the number 09035666***, the true caller would indicate ‘Hanan Buhari’, a situation that made him plan to report to the service provider, to ‘rectify the problem’ but he never reported until he was arrested.

Sunday Vanguard found out that Okolie actually ran into trouble with security agencies after he started posing as a woman and pretending as if he was Buhari’s daughter and original owner of the SIM all in a bid to curry favour from unsuspecting members of the public.

Okolie, records show, began to make brisk business once he discovered that the phone number he was holding was more of a ‘goldmine’ and consequently began to solicit financial assistance from key Nigerians who knew the first family’s daughter.

Findings show that one of the personalities Okolie called with the number and solicited for cash assistance became uncomfortable with the voice, which he suspected was not that of a woman even though the true caller showed the owner to be that of Hanan.

Okolie confessed: “I was arrested on July 21, 2019, after I had used the phone to chat with an unknown number which I asked for financial assistance and the man, promised to assist me but I never talked with him again because I did not know who the person was.”

A source close to the service provider, who issued the controversial SIM to Okolie, confirmed last night that the number was validly issued to Okolie after it was duly retrieved from the original user having been dormant for a long time in accordance with industry practice in order to keep its subscribers base healthy.

The source said the company was however not responsible for the intentions to which the subscriber deployed the SIM and should not be held accountable for such as its responsibility ends with the issuance.

It will be recalled that certain groups and individuals had recently claimed that Okolie was about to commit suicide having been forced to abandon his wife and fish farm business due to his arrest and detention for 10 weeks, during which he said he was well treated by the DSS.

Contrary to claims that he was about to lose his wife, the suspect submits in the document: “I am single, Christian and self-employed and currently searching for a job.”

Vanguard

13 comments:

  1. Rubbish,damage control by DSS
    Liars

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  2. I know the DSS will lie just to push the blame on the guy. If he was guilty, why wasn't he charged to court? Damage control. Useless government.

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  3. More and more, we all need to take a breather from posting comments till we have some more details. I remember how we bashed the arresting agency and i recall that someone said there must be a reason why the person was apprehended. Now we have another side of the story.

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    1. True. My only question is - why did the DSS have to make him sign an agreement not to prosecute? To me that either casts doubt on this story, or point to the fact that the agency didn’t follow due process in his arrest and interrogation.

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    2. That's the right question @mystic bloody liars. I know this boy and he's a project manager. A friend's younger sibling and he's not the person they have just narrated about in this post.why freaking make him sign not to discuss/disclose this matter once released?

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  4. Which one are we going to believe now, fron the interview I read on punch, the guy said he never married and supplies sand and building materials in Asaba.
    This is another story from Vanguard, completely differen5 from that of punch.
    He said he did got strange calls and messages but never replied to any of it.
    Na wah o.

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  5. They will mess your head sotay you will doubt your sanity. Paid propagandists.

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  6. I really feel the DSS are trying to clear themselves. How come the said sim card is still with the guy and wasn't seized

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  7. This Naija hennn! See the way they are twisting the whole story. God dey!

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  8. Damage control...How did he get the Phone number of the said influential people? How can a delta man pose as a woman and speak Hausa? Why was he released then? Why did he have to sign that he wont sue? How come the initial story said she was in the UK busy with her studies meanwhile she also flew the presidential jet? Abeg na dem

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  9. And dem Free am??? Enough with the lies already. This reeks of damage control

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  10. Oooooooooh!
    Make una take am easy, so many versions.

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