Marriage Proposal: Fake Nigerian Lover Boy Nabbed After Duping Lady Of N5m

Officials of the Nigerian Police in Lagos have arraigned a man, identified as Oke Uche, before an Ejigbo magistrates’ court after he duped a woman of N5 million under the pretense of a marriage proposal.

According to the police, the accused collected the money from the victim, one Chidimma, pretending that he was going to open a joint business for both of them towards marriage.

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The accused, who the police described as a fake lover boy, had promised his victim marriage after the joint business grows.

But rather than fulfill his side of the bargain, the police said the accused bolted away with money since 2021 and that all effort to trace him were not successful.

The prosecutor, Inspector Simeon Njue, told the magistrate that the fraudster was tracked and apprehended at the Ikotun area of Lagos after months of investigation.

Njue said the suspect confessed that he collected the amount from the woman.

The Magistrate, A. K. Dosumu, granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned.

GWG reports that stories of Nigerian men deceiving ladies local and foreign with false hope of marriage proposal have become a recurring matter.

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