Fake Estate Agent Escapes Mob Attack

A man suspected to
    be a fake estate agent has narrowly escaped mob attack in Lagos, Friday, following the intervention of men of the Police force that showed up at the scene.
The said agent whose identity was given as Fred Awosika had allegedly obtained the sum of N550,000 under false pretence from an accommodation seeker.
The accommodation seeker, Ayodele Ayedum disclosed to journalists that the fake agent collect the said sum from him on the pretence that he was the caretaker of a mini flat in Ikate area of Surulere in February.
He said that it was their agreement that the mini flat will be given to him on rent on the payment of the N550,000.
“At the time I wanted to pack into the supposedly rented mini-flat, I discovered that it had been occupied by another tenant.
“I confronted him, but he said that he was waiting for the landlord’s clearance, and since then he disappeared and I have not seen him”, the victim said.
The accommodation seeker however told newsmen that luck ran out him on the said day when he spotted him in a restaurant, with the help of the machinery he put in place.
He said that he will stop at nothing in ensuring that his hard-earned money is recovered, and that the alleged fraudster is dealt with for his action.
However, the alleged fake agent was taken away by the Police so as to avert the mob action against him.