Mayowa, before and now
#SaveMayowa
Campaign: POLICE, LUTH PROBE ALLEGED SCAM
The
Lagos State Police Command has waded into the controversy surrounding the
#SaveMayowa campaign which a popular blogger described as a fraudulent scheme
designed to fleece innocent members of the public.
The campaign which has raised more than
N32 million since it started was embroiled in controversy on Thursday when the
popular blogger asked Nigerians not to donate to the fund.
Following this development, the Lagos
State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, has directed full scale
investigation into the campaign.
Owoseni also directed Access Bank to
freeze the account opened in the name of the patient, Mayowa.
In a statement issued by Dolapo Badmos,
spokesman of the Lagos Police Command, she stated:
”The Lagos State Commissioner of
Police, Fatai Owoseni has directed full scale investigation into the report
that the *Save Mayowa Campaign* is a fraud.
”Founder of Lifestake foundation Ms
Aramide Kasumu and two members of the ailing Aramide Shukura Ahmed’s family, Mr
Iwaloye Seun and Mrs Zaneen Ahmed were earlier today invited to the command’s
headquarter on a fact-finding mission, subsequently the command have placed a
red alert on the access bank account opened in the name of Mayowa as it has
been frozen while effort is ongoing to contact the managers of Gofundme online
account so as to ensure funds raised through that platform is not fraudulently
diverted. Investigation will be extended to LUTH hospital Idi-Araba where the
patient is currently undergoing treatment.
”The command wishes to inform all the
good spirited people who had donated generously to this course that it will
ensure it does not return as a hoax and every outcome of the investigation
shall be made open.
”Our heart is with Mayowa at this
Critical period of her life and pray she finds healing.”
Apart from the police, the authorities
of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, have also ordered
investigation into the matter.
The Chief Medical Director of LUTH,
Professor Chris ‘Bode, said the report of a scam allegation involving the
family of Ahmed Mayowa Sukurat, an ovarian cancer patient on admission at LUTH,
would be investigated.
Professor Bode said the management of
the hospital was not aware of the campaign.
Source: PM News, Nigeria.
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