By Nkechi Eze
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has indeed been active in warning the public about land scams in Abuja, highlighting the need for vigilance when dealing with real estate transactions. Recently, Operatives of the Commission, arrested a fake land vendor, Nwobo Williams Chibuike in Abuja.
Dele Oyewale the commission’s spokesperson in an official signed statement disclosed that Chibuike was arrested for allegedly defrauding members of the public through offers of fake plots of land in Kurudu, Sabon Lugbe East Extension, Kpeyegyi and Jikoyi Village Extension, all in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
Investigations showed that, Chibuike, self-styled Managing Director of C&C Reality & Construction Limited, Dream-Krest Homes and Properties Limited and Dan Faith Shelters Limited, was marketing fictitious and non-existing landed properties in several locations in the FCT and getting his victims to make payments ranging from N60,000,000( Sixty Million Naira), N24,000, 000( Twenty- Four Million Naira), N11,000,000( Eleven Million Naira) to N3, 500, 000( Three Million Five Hundred Naira) in locations such as Karsana, Pyakasa, Jikwoyi , Kurudu, Katampe Extension, Guzape 2, Kuje and other locations in the FCT.
The Commission’s enquiries from the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, showed that none of the locations being marketed and sold by Chibuike and his agents are real.
According to Dele, the suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.
The public is hereby alerted to be wary of such vendors, especially itinerant land marketers around the FCT and be appropriately guided. The statement concluded.
