Before her arrest by the police, Mrs. Florence Ojogo, who fronted a non-governmental organisation (NGO) on women empowerment and a network marketing outfit of Tianshi Health products, narrowly escaped being lynched by some of the women who stormed her office along Ondo Road, Akure, and violently demanded their money.
The fashion designer-turned-marketing executive reportedly swindled the women of several millions of naira on the claim that she had a consignment of rice from Tianshi which would be sold to all the women at a rock bottom price of N3,500 per 50-kilogramme bag.
The current market price for the commodity is N9,500.
She allegedly used her status as deaconess in the Ijapo chapel of Living Faith Church and her NGO to attract many women, mostly market women and private business owners all over Akure, to key into the rice business, where she sold registration forms to over 5,000 women.
The quick intervention of mobile policemen from Mopol 19, Akure, saved the embattled Mrs. Ojogo from the women who had formed a mob in front of her office. Over 20 policemen were drafted to the scene to bring the situation under control and prevent the angry women from physically attacking the woman.
The mobile police team later led Mrs. Ojogo and the women to the 'A' Divisional Police station, along Oba-Adesida Road, where both parties were made to write separate statements and formal complaint was made against the deaconess.
Based on the written statement of some of the women, Ojogo was later detained at the police station, while the officer in charge of the case appealed to the angry women to go back to their respectively homes and allow police investigate the matter.
The Investigating Police Officer (IPO), who did not want his name in the print, disclosed that Mrs. Ojogo has since been granted bail after her husband, a former aide to former Governor Olusegun Agagu, signed an undertaking to pay back the money collected by his wife from the women on or before January 15, 2013.
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