EFCC Arrests Fake State House Staff

The Operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a syndicate of fake State House Staff in Abuja over offenses bothering on criminal conspiracy, false representation, and employment scam.

EFCC suspects were arrested separately following an investigation on petitions drawn by their victims who were promised jobs as “Directors General” at the Ministry of Communication, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and other ministries.

The suspects are Augustine Enamegbai Umogboi who claimed to be a former staff of the State House was arrested ombJine 16, Eleojo Josephine Idakwo, a fake staff of the Ministry of Information in the Registry Unit was arrested on April 30, and Kingsley Onuh who also claimed that he just concluded his National Youth Service Corps, NYSC was arrested on April 3.

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Also arrested are Omata Sunday and Eljayon Nigeria Limited, one of the companies whose bank account they were using to get money from their victims.

They had different account numbers of different banks through which they were receiving the money amounting to twenty-two million, three hundred and fifty thousand naira (N22,350, 00) from individual victims.

According to EFCC, a series of petitions written to the agency by the victims will be used to charge them to court upon conclusion of investigation.