‘I wanted to be famous like Peller’ – Ogun tailor nabbed for posting fake bandit’s video

The 25-year-old manner designer, Kowiu Oloyede, arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for posting a viral video falsely claiming that bandits invaded Atan successful Ado-Odo/Ota, said helium made the clips due to the fact that helium wanted to spell viral similar fashionable Nigerian streamer, Habeeb Hamzat, aka Peller.

Last Monday, the suspect, a nonmigratory of Sokoto roadworthy successful Atan-Ota posted a TikTok video connected his leafage “Nice Boy” showing him successful a bush with gunshot sounds successful the inheritance and the caption, “Bandit is successful Atan, assistance america ooo.” 

In the clip, helium wore a achromatic singlet and achromatic shorts and was seen hiding successful the bush with 2 others, each appearing panicked arsenic they said they hadn’t seen their mother.

On Wednesday, helium posted a 2nd video showing himself kneeling alongside different person, alleging they had been kidnapped and pleading for mercy from a herdsman.

He, however, deleted the 2nd video on Thursday.

The videos were said to person raised his relationship from 60 followers to 1,345k.

Following this, operatives of the Ogun State constabulary swung into enactment and arrested Kowiu on Saturday.

In an interrogation with DAILY POST on Monday, the fishy revealed that the intent of the video was to spell viral and summation much followers connected TikTok.

“I was successful my store and I conscionable noticed that radical were...