*** Buyers Beware: Man Arrested For Selling
‘Fufu’ Phones ***
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on
Environmental and Special Offences
(Enforcement) Unit have arrested a man for
selling phones stuffed with ‘fufu’ to
unsuspecting buyers at the Computer Village,
Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
After his arrest, it was discovered that instead
of the original battery in the phone, the
phone is stuffed with fufu to make it heavy
and look like the normal phone. It is then sold
to unsuspecting members of the public.
The suspect, 24 years old Samson Adebiyi
from Ogun State, was arrested on Wednesday
at the Computer Village after the man, Semiu
Ambali, who first fell victim to his antics, set
him up.
According to Adebiyi, those selling fufu
phones to unsuspecting buyers are many at
the Computer Village.
The syndicates usually have several phones on
them and do not have shops at the Computer
Village. They approach a customer and display
their phones and once that customer is
interested, they bring out the particular
phone the person wants to buy, remove the
battery, test it so that the customer can be
sure it is okay.
In the process of the customer being
distracted, the seller quickly replaces it with
another phone (but of the same brand). The
only difference is that the battery of the fake
phone is replaced with fufu.
Once the unsuspecting buyer accepts the
phone and pays, the sellers relocate to
another part of the Computer Village where
no one could see them and play the same
tricks on others.
On this occasion, Ambali was shown the
phone he wanted to buy by Adebiyi, who
agreed to sell the phone at N8,000.
According to him, the phone was tested and
certified okay and that at the moment he was
distracted, the phone was replaced with a
fufu phone and that he only realised this
when he got home.
The following day, he spent almost the whole
day looking for the suspected swindler and as
luck would have it, he caught up with him
and alerted the police.
Instead of grabbing him, he decided to play
the same game all over again with him. He
agreed to pay N4,000 for another phone that
had been tested and certified okay by Adebiyi.
He pretended to be distracted, only for the
fake phone syndicate to exchange it with
another fufu phone.
It was then the taskforce officials who were
lurking around, grabbed Adebiyi and took
him to their office and detained him.
The suspect confessed to the act, saying that
he did it to make ends meet. He said several
of his colleagues were still at the Computer
Village engaging in the same act.
Adebiyi said he used to be a cobbler and that
since the business was not lucrative, he
decided to engage in selling fake phones with
fufu battery.
Taskforce Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman said the
taskforce had received several complaints
about the activities of syndicates selling fufu
phones, saying this was why it raided the
Computer Village recently to stop street
trading.
He said the suspect would be charged to
court and punished if found guilty.

4reigningqueen: *** Buyers Beware: Man Arrested For Selling
‘Fufu’ Phones ***
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on
Environmental and Special Offences
(Enforcement) Unit have arrested a man for
selling phones stuffed with ‘fufu’ to
unsuspecting buyers at the Computer Village,
Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
After his arrest, it was discovered that instead
of the original battery in the phone, the
phone is stuffed with fufu to make it heavy
and look like the normal phone. It is then sold
to unsuspecting members of the public.
The suspect, 24 years old Samson Adebiyi
from Ogun State, was arrested on Wednesday
at the Computer Village after the man, Semiu
Ambali, who first fell victim to his antics, set
him up.
According to Adebiyi, those selling fufu
phones to unsuspecting buyers are many at
the Computer Village.
The syndicates usually have several phones on
them and do not have shops at the Computer
Village. They approach a customer and display
their phones and once that customer is
interested, they bring out the particular
phone the person wants to buy, remove the
battery, test it so that the customer can be
sure it is okay.
In the process of the customer being
distracted, the seller quickly replaces it with
another phone (but of the same brand). The
only difference is that the battery of the fake
phone is replaced with fufu.
Once the unsuspecting buyer accepts the
phone and pays, the sellers relocate to
another part of the Computer Village where
no one could see them and play the same
tricks on others.
On this occasion, Ambali was shown the
phone he wanted to buy by Adebiyi, who
agreed to sell the phone at N8,000.
According to him, the phone was tested and
certified okay and that at the moment he was
distracted, the phone was replaced with a
fufu phone and that he only realised this
when he got home.
The following day, he spent almost the whole
day looking for the suspected swindler and as
luck would have it, he caught up with him
and alerted the police.
Instead of grabbing him, he decided to play
the same game all over again with him. He
agreed to pay N4,000 for another phone that
had been tested and certified okay by Adebiyi.
He pretended to be distracted, only for the
fake phone syndicate to exchange it with
another fufu phone.
It was then the taskforce officials who were
lurking around, grabbed Adebiyi and took
him to their office and detained him.
The suspect confessed to the act, saying that
he did it to make ends meet. He said several
of his colleagues were still at the Computer
Village engaging in the same act.
Adebiyi said he used to be a cobbler and that
since the business was not lucrative, he
decided to engage in selling fake phones with
fufu battery.
Taskforce Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman said the
taskforce had received several complaints
about the activities of syndicates selling fufu
phones, saying this was why it raided the
Computer Village recently to stop street
trading.
He said the suspect would be charged to
court and punished if found guilty.

no be today jare.....there's a thread on it years back in this section.