I am writing this exposé because it is my civic responsibility to report it and save contractors like me from what I believe is the biggest coordinated cum organized crime/scam threatening the construction community in Nigeria.
On Saturday, 2nd May 2020 I was contacted through WhatsApp by one Comrade Daniel Samuel picture below.

(Phone No: 08128048052) claiming his community (Elelem community in Ngor Okpala) needs an engineer to handle their hospital construction project. After much discussion, he sent me pictures of the hospital design bearing the name Dr. Joseph Ubajaka. I fixed an appointment with them and visited on Wednesday, 6th May 2020.
I and my colleague went to the supposedly staged community palace at around 1.20 pm where we were received at the staged palace hall by the chief of the community Hon. Kenneth Ozuzu, his accomplice, the kingmaker, and the project committee members as they called themselves. They presented us with a kola nut and told us that it is customary in their palace that we return the plate with #10,000.00. We complied by accepting the welcome gesture with the stated sum. The chief went ahead to brief us on the need for the project but before that, he warned us that it is against the palace law to take a picture of the palace, he said this in a bid to cover their tracks. He stated in his speech that the community lacks hospital and the members of the community had to visit federal hospital Owerri which is very far and as such the project is designed to solve this problem and improve the health sector in their community.
The chief went ahead to inform us that the hospital project will be sponsored by his brother who is a medical doctor in the UK. He told us his brother gave him the go-ahead to get a vibrant, reliable, and competent company to handle the project. That the company that will handle the project will do solely from the clearing of the bush to paint.
The chief presented us with the three (3) hard copies design of the hospital project to view and see if we can handle the project. We assessed the 3 copies and told them that we can handle the project not knowing all these are part of one big scam.
The chief went further stating that there are conditions that follow the project,. The conditions are as follows:
• At the commencement of the job, the members of their community (vibrant youths) who are interested will be employed to complement the company’s laborers.
• Fighting is strictly prohibited in the construction site. Any defaulter will be fined a cow and sum of #100,000.00
• Smoking of hard drugs such as Indian hemp is prohibited from the site. Any defaulter will be fined (a cow and #100,000.00).
• There will be no third-party settlement beside the one agreed by the members of the committee prior to the commencement of the project.
• The last but not the least is that they will perform a traditional rite on the site. Due to religious differences, the chief said that he will not divulge the processes involved in the rite but he insisted that the rite is simply to appease any spirit inhabiting the land and foster peaceful execution of the project.
• He said that we have to procure the things stated on the list before they can give out the hard copies of the design, that we will get the design the day we fulfill the list.
• The items on this purported list totaled the sum of Five Hundred and Forty-One Thousand Naira (#541,000.00).
Before the conclusion of the meeting, the chief said that since the committee has accepted us that we will have to host the meeting for the committee as a sign of good faith. The committee demanded #50,000.00 which we beat down to #25,000.00. In fact, it will be hard to believe it is all lie because they made it all look real. They staged the palace; the committee includes old men, women, and young men.
Finally, the chief took us to a site and showed us the land and the demarcation where the project will take place which is obviously a “no man’s land”. Luckily for us, we were tipped off by a Facebook post by Higher Dimensions Engineering (https://web.facebook.com/230919537605043/photos/a.244876356209361/283950845635245/?type=1&theater) on how the same people used the same story to dwindle and scam one of his colleagues the sum of #450,000.00. We did not go back there again but they kept calling and pushing us to come. They are very unrelenting in carrying out their vicious crimes.
My advice to my fellow contractors is to be wary of this scammers, the Elelem community in Ngor Okpala is notorious at organized crime. These have shown they can go at any length to scam people. It is a hospital project today; tomorrow it may be another project. I believe that the community is all in on this too. It has been their Modus operandi to scam hopeful contractors with nailing a big construction project.
These are their numbers 08128048052, 0703949500.

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