N22 million employment scam: EFCC arrest fake state house employees

A group of fictitious State House employees was apprehended by agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja on charges of criminal conspiracy, false representation, and employment scam.

This was stated in a statement released on Saturday in Abuja by its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale.

He stated that after conducting an inquiry on petitions from victims who had been promised jobs in various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), commission agents detained the suspects individually.

The suspects, he said, promised the victims jobs as “Director-General” at the Ministry of Communication, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC and other ministries.

The spokesman listed the suspects to include Augustine Umogboi, who claimed to be a former staff of the State House and Eleojo Idakwo, a fake staff of the Ministry of Information in the Registry Unit.

Others are Kingsley Onuh who also claimed to just conclud his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Omata Sunday and Eljayon Nigeria Limited, one of the companies which the bank account they were using to get money from their victims.

“Besides, they had different account numbers of different banks through which they were receiving the money amounting to N22,350,000 from different victims.

“Umogboi was arrested on June 16, Idakwo was arrested on April 30, 2024, while Onuh was arrested on April 3,” he said.

He said that the victims narrated their bitter experience in a series of petitions written to the EFCC, adding that, “the suspects have given useful information to the EFCC and will be charged to court upon conclusion of investigation”.