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Nigerians lose over N200 billion to Ponzi scheme

—-as EFCC says Diezani’s diamond bra was social media creation
Eyewitness reporter
The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, has revealed that innocent but gullible Nigerians have lost over N200 billion to investment and employment scams in the country.
In a television interview monitored by our reporter in Lagos, Mr Bawa, who also used the platform to dismiss the rumoured diamond bra seized from the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, as “social media creation”, stated that the Ponzi scheme scam has become a huge problem that the commission was grappling with for which the anti-graft agency is being inundated with complaints by the victims.
“This issue of investment scam is something that has been observed and we are working on that. In fact, as of the last briefing when we aggregated all the complaints involving investment scam and employment scam, Nigerians have complained to us to have lost over N200 billion in complaints. It’s a huge problem”, the anti-corruption czar declared. “Ponzi schemes are going on left, right and centre and Nigerians have to be wary about anybody that is promising you some money- doubling interest. How can you invest N500,000 and somebody is promising you N50,000 every month and at the end of that, you collect your N500,000 back”, Bawa observed. He also used the opportunity to make clarification on the seized properties from Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, said to contain expensive diamond bra listed among to be auctioned by the Federal government. According to Bawa, there was no diamond bra as the fictitious claim was the creation of the social media, saying he ought to know if there was anything of such as the lead investigator who investigated the former minister.
”The government has not sold a single property recovered. We are working towards that. You have accused us several times of media trials but I think it is good to be fair to everybody at all times.“This case is a two-way thing, there was nothing like diamond bra; it is just a creation of social media. I can tell you that for free because I am the lead investigator. I am not aware of it. “If there is something like that, I should know because I led the search and all of that. It is one of the things I mentioned to you that is one of the biggest problems we have is our attitude, we need to change for the better,” Bawa said.
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He said, “Now, the Blue Economy has come to stay and very soon you will see the impact of what we have; in terms of the gains and benefits to grow our Gross Domestic Product while improving the well-being of our own Economy”.
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