Adebowale Williams, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, is hounding FIJ for a November 11 story involving GPEC Global Resources, an Oyo-based educational consult that scammed a postgraduate student it had promised overseas admission in early 2021.

On November 11, FIJ had reported how GPEC Global Resources took money from Peter Idowu (not real name), a postgraduate student who was seeking admission outside the country.

Idowu had been lured to the scheme after he came across an advert promoting the firm’s scholarship offer to Spain on Facebook.

“Sometime in February 2021, I saw a Facebook post from GPEC Global Resources in Ibadan saying they were helping people to secure scholarship admission in Spain. They even said it was a 70 per cent scholarship offer,” he said.

“Afterwards, I was asked to pay N200,000 to kickstart the admission process. Immediately I paid the money, I stopped hearing from them.

“All my attempts to reach Oluwatosin Anjorin, the consult’s managing director, have been unsuccessful. Nobody in their firm will even attend to me. Even when I contacted the MD, he only gave endless empty promises of communicating the admission process to me.”

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AN INVITE WITH THE CP’S TEMPLATE

Over the weekend, FIJ received a letter from CSP Ogundile, the Officer-in-Charge of Command X-Squad, titled ‘RE-CASE OF CRIMINAL DEFAMATION AND CYBERSTALKING’, summoning FIJ to an interview the Commissioner of Police.

“This office is investigating the above mentioned case reported to the Commissioner of Police via a written petition by GPEC Global resources, wherein your name featured prominently,” read the letter.

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“In view of the above, you are kindly requested to interview the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command through the Officer in Charge of Command X- Squad at the State Headquarters, Eleyele Ibadan, on Wednesday, 28th December, 2022 by 1000 am prompt.

“This is a fact finding invitation and your cooperation is highly solicited to facilitate a logical conclusion into the matter. Accept the assurances of the esteemed regards of the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State, please.”

When FIJ contacted Adewale Osifeso, PPRO of Oyo State Police Command, he did absolve the CP, but he insisted FIJ should honour the invitation.

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NOT THE FIRST TIME

The current scenario is reminiscent of December 2021, when ‘Fisayo Soyombo, FIJ’s founder and editor-in-chief, as well as other staff and board members of FIJ, received an invitation from the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit over FIJ’s story on how Joseph Egbunike, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, connived with other police chiefs to approve over a billion naira for false police transit camps.

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Egbunike was the police commissioner in charge of budget and finance when he led the fraud, but he came under the spotlight after his 2021 appointment as the head of the police internal panel to probe the indictment of Abba Kyari for fraud by the FBI.

As a law-abiding citizen, Soyombo honoured the invitation, but what the police called an interview with the head of IGP Monitoring Unit turned out to be an arrest and detention; he was only released late in the day after widespread newspaper and social media outcry.