Lagos: Man Who Was In Shock After Losing N35,000 Sits On Rail Track While Train Approaches

An unidentified man has reportedly sat on the rail track at Cappa/Oshodi on Thursday after losing N35,000 while a train was coming at full speed.

The man was resting on his hands placed on his knees while ignoring the blasting horns of the train.

According to The Nation the man, who looked confused, when asked why he ignored the warnings, said he was on his way to Arena Shopping Complex when he lost N35,000.

He stated that the shock from losing such an amount of money left him numbed.

“I was on my way to Arena when I realised I had lost N35,000,” he said.

An eyewitness said: “Even I could hear the train horn from a far distance.”

What was most surprising for others eyewitnesses was that it was unusual for a train in motion to stop abruptly.

One eyewitness said: “I don’t want to witness what I did some few years ago in this same place – how a train smashed a man into smithereens right before me.”

Yahoo Boys Abduct Colleague

Security operatives in Ogun State have arrested four suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Boys, who abducted their colleague after he gave them ₦2,200 out of N26 million that a client paid.

The victim, Haruna Usman, was said to have given his colleagues, ₦2,200 after receiving over N26 million, claiming that their client has not paid completely.

Angered by the victim’s action, the suspects, namely; Agbe Simeon ‘m’, Messiah Nicky ‘f’, Oladapo Dolapo ‘m’ and Yetunde Shonola ‘f’ lured him to an herbalist home at Orile Imo in Obafemi Owode LGA of Ogun State where they held him hostage.

The Ogun State, Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Thursday said that the suspects were arrested on December 26 at Orile imo village in Obafemi Owode LGA of the State, following a piece of information received by the Police at Owode Egba divisional headquarters, that Usman, who had been abducted since December 22, was being held hostage somewhere in Orile Imo.

Upon the information, the DPO Owode Egba division, CSP Popoola Olasunkanmi quickly mobilized his men and stormed the area, where four amongst the abductors were apprehended while two others escaped.

“Preliminary investigation revealed that the victim and the suspects belong to an internet fraudster syndicate, and that they recently swindled somebody whose identity is not yet known of sum of twenty six million, four hundred and thirty seven thousand, nine hundred and fifty naira (#26,437,950), but the victim only gave the sum of #2,200 to his other colleagues, claiming that the money has not been paid completely by client. This infuriated colleagues who then lured him to an herbalist home at Orile Imo and held him hostage there since Thursday, 22nd of December 2022, with threat to kill him there if he refused to give them thier complete share.

But while they were there, information got to the police who moved in, rescued the victim and apprehended four (4) amongst the abductors, while others escaped,” the statement said.