The Governor of Ebonyi State,
Chief David Umahi, has revealed how he ordered for the arrest of fake pastors
who nearly duped him of over $125 million US dollars.
Umahi made this known while
addressing stakeholders and the members of the Christian Association of
Nigeria, CAN, Ebonyi State chapter during a homage at his country home at Uburu
community, Ohaozara LGA, of Ebonyi State.
According to him, “My mother
taught me and my brothers how to honour men of God. Those who are men of God
that are not real should be avoided. They are taking curse upon themselves
because their own judgement will be greater.
“Something played out today. Some
group of people in the past two months said they have $125 million U.S dollars
to give us. I told my Commissioner for Finance that it doesn’t sound real. I
know immediately that it was a scam but my commissioner for finance continued
pushing innocently.
“Because of his belief that it is
real, I told him to go ahead. They made us to know that they are investors and
that they have money to give to us for free of charge. They said we should
bring $125 million US dollars. And out of the money, they will only take $25
million dollars to develop our place while the remaining $100million US dollars
will be our own.
“I said what is my own. They can
even take 50% if they want and give us even 1million dollars, since it is a
grants. I told them that, if this money is a flush money, Ebonyi State Government
will not be held responsible. The journey began. They said that we should show
evidence of $10 million dollars in our account.
“I ask them why do you want us to
have money in that account? I now directed UBA to credit 3.6 billion but we are
not touching or making use of it. Just show evidence. And so, UBA did and sent
to them. Now, in the last one week, we supposed to have the money credited to
our account but the acclaimed investors failed. I laughed.
“They wrote to us three days ago
that the money will not be released to us unless we sign a sovereign grantee.
You know, sovereign grantee can only be signed by the President. They said in
the alternative, we should bring a letter of credit. I said why should they
demand for letter of credit when there is no exchange of goods?
“Then, I demanded to meet with
these people. I now told my commissioner for finance to invite them to come.
They demanded for tickets and logistics money. I told them to come, I’m a
governor and I will pay for everything. They all came and I lodged them at the
Osborne Hotel.
“I invited the Director of DSS,
though I didn’t tell them but what shocked me was that most of them hailed from
Igbo land. The link man is from Afikpo our own Ebonyi State. We began to talk.
I asked them why do they need a letter of credit?
“Are we expecting goods from you?
They said no. They stated going up and down. I asked them, why don’t you people
give us chance, you think that Ebonyi State is a fool and that we are gullible.
“I gave them two options, as an
Igbo man, I want us to resolve this matter as brothers. I asked them to confess
that they want to scam us. On the alternative, I will take the matter up. This
is because, if this is allowed, some one may die of heart attack.
“They are looking for our money
but they will not get it because we are in a debit alert.
“It is God, that led them to
come, so that I can stop the virus. And so, about five of them when we began to
probe further, I discovered that their leader was a pastor in one popular
church in Abuja. I seized their phones and other things. I directed DSS to
arrest them and never to release them,” he stated.
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