Two suspected fake model recruitment agents, Stanley Odachi and Chuks Oragwu, have been arrested for allegedly luring young girls to hotels and bars, and dispossessing them of their money and property.
Punch learnt that the modus operandi of the suspects was to pose on the social media as model recruitment agents to lure teenage girls aspiring to become models.
It was gathered that after luring the victims to appointed venues, the suspects would collect their phones on the pretext of taking their pictures, which would be shown to their boss, and they would later disappear with the phones.
Punch learnt that as of the time of the suspects’ arrest, about five girls had reported to the police that the suspects absconded with their phones and money on the pretext of registering them for modelling jobs.
The victims, in their statements to the police, stated that they met the suspects on Instagram through which they requested young models to enlist with their agency for modelling contracts.
Another victim, who is an undergraduate of a private university, also told the police that the suspects, who acted as the manager and personal assistant to the manager of the agency, collected N50,000 and an iPhone from her when she visited them at a hotel in Igando.
Punch correspondent learnt that the suspects had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.
Reacting to the incident, the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, urged residents to be mindful of the kind of business transactions they engage in on the social media, adding that Lagos would not be a breeding ground for criminals. Punch
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