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A Fugitive Credit Card Fraudster From The US Appointed To Top Political Offices In Nigeria

A Fugitive Credit Card Fraudster From The US Appointed To Top Political Offices In Nigeria

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On Tuesday, October 4, the Lagos State government appointed a convicted credit card fraudster and fugitive to head its Safety Commission.

If approved by the House of Assembly, Hakeem Dickson, a former Internal Auditor at the now defunct Nigeria Airways, will resume as the Director General of the Lagos State Safety Commission despite fleeing from a 24-month jail term in the U.S.

“For 20 years, Defendant successfully evaded all United States government efforts to locate and arrest him,” Judge Dickinson Debevoise stated in his judgment made public by Sahara Reporters.

“He has not served the 24 months sentence lawfully imposed upon him in June 1992.”

PREMIUM TIMES reached out to the Lagos State government through Steve Ayorinde, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, to know if the administration was aware of Mr. Dickson’s antecedents before his appointment. Repeated phone calls were not answered and a text message sent since last week was yet to be replied to.

Efforts were made to reach Mr. Dickson but he did not respond to phone calls. A visit to the address listed for his company -1 Mayor Hakeem Olaogun Dickson Drive, Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1 – showed that only Hakeem Dickson Road exists in the area, and there’s no building on Number One Hakeem Dickson Road.

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