A
man simply identified as Wisdom, is now on the run, for allegedly
defrauding over 50 job seekers, who jumped at his offer of
mouthwatering jobs at the yet to take-off Federal Government Export
Processing Zone, Ogodigben in Warri South-West Local Government Area,
Delta State.
It
dawned on the job racketeering victims that they had been duped when
they arrived, weekend, in Ode-Ugborodu to the bemused host community
folks of the EPZ project, where the fraudster had directed them to meet a
fake associate expected to accommodate and take them to the project
site for jobs placement.
Narrating
their ordeal during interrogation at a community gathering in Ugborodo,
Josiah Mathias, who spoke on behalf of others, said he paid N70, 000 to
the said Wisdom after a neighbour in Bonny, Rivers State, intimated him
of several job opportunities at Ogidigben on January 2, 2014.
Matthias, said:
“All of us here paid various sums of money through various contacts
from different locations to Wisdom, some above, others below the amount I
parted with. We were told work would be ready in two weeks.
“On
January 2, virtually all of us received a text message to proceed to
Ugborodo on January 31, to resume work almost immediately after issuance
of identity cards at the presumed establishment’s conference hall. We
got here now to meet a different story. It is so painful.”
The
community, which initially held the victims, over their surprise
appearance in the volatile Ugborodo later, freed them to return to their
respective destinations at the end of the interrogation
No comments:
Post a Comment