Celebrity CRIME News:
:Nollywood Actor
RICHARD MOFE DAMIJO is Wanted by EFCC:
--- Richard Mofe Damijo Involved In N50 Million Embezzlement Scandal ---
--- He May go
to JAIL if Found GUILTY---
This is how Sahara
Reporters is reporting the story:
Philo Nkem Ajufo, the
acting General Manager of Delta State Tourism Board, has been detained by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja over her role in a
financial scheme.
Ms. Ajufo is
reportedly being quizzed for conniving with her boss, Richard Mofe Damijo
(RMD), to embezzle N50 million from the state Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Mr. Mofe Damijo, a well known Nollywood star, is the commissioner in charge of
the ministry.
Our EFCC source, said
the commissioner was also being sought by the anti-corruption agency, but he
has been elusive.
An EFCC source confirmed Ms. Ajufo’s arrest. “As
we talk, the Delta State Tourism GM, one Mrs. Nkem Ajufo, is been held in our
headquarters here in Abuja over her involvement in the N50 million fraud. Her
boss, Mr. Richard Mofe Damijo, is not left out but as we speak he is still
avoiding us,” said the source.
Two sources at the
ministry told our reporter that the EFCC last week delivered a letter inviting
Ms. Ajufo to appear at their headquarters. She was reportedly asked to bring
along relevant documents concerning the N50 million that was meant for the
purported 2007 Delta Expo event which never held.
The sources disclosed
that Mr. Mofe Damijo went underground on learning about the current development.
One source told our
reporter that the commissioner, who is reported to be building himself a
massive underground edifice in Lagos, was trying to use political contacts in
Delta and Abuja to scuttle the EFCC’s investigation and washed his hands off
the scam.
SaharaReporters learnt
that Mr. Mofe Damijo denied knowledge of the money during the budget defense
exercise.
Several calls and sms
texts sent to Mr. Damijo and Ms. Ajufo’s mobile lines were not answered. After
a while, the commissioner switched off his mobile phone.
Late last year,
Saharareporters had broken the news of the N50 million allegedly embezzled by
the commissioner and the acting GM of the state’s tourism board.
Several sources in the
commissioner’s office had confided that a former commissioner in the Ministry
had applied for the N50 million to organize the “Delta State Expo 2007,”
disclosing that the state could not release the funds then due to some
financial challenges. However, when the funds were released into the Tourism
account in May, 2012, Mr. Mofe Damijo allegedly said that the ministry could no
longer carry out the event since it had elapsed by six years and Deltans would
have forgotten about the event.
But our reporter
obtained “Forms of Advance Warrant” on release of funds from the Ministry of
Finance indicating that the N50 million was supposed to be spent on the
original event for which it was approved. The warrant order, numbered 00000117,
00000114 and 00000115, was signed by one Ms. P.O. Evuojapha for the Commissioner
of Finance.
SaharaReporters learnt
that N35 million of the N50 million was supposed to have gone to the tourism
board.
A reporter for
SaharaReporters learned that Mr. Mofe Damijo issued a check to the tourism
board in the name of its acting GM, Ms. Ajufo. She in turn reportedly deposited
the sum into her First Bank private account with account number
(3006131619) operated under her name, Nkem Philo Ajufo. Our sources said she
and Mr. Mofe Damijo subsequently shared the money.
(SOURCE: Sahara
Reporters)
GUYS, WHAT DO YOU
THINK?
- Olatubosun Ayomide Oguns Abeg pesin we shop #27b wetin dem do am RmD no lele joooooo na our money u don shop ur own b dat
- Baron Blink abeg wat kinda rubbish is dis,they wont go after people who steal billions and d ones dat were arrested are either released on bail or on plea bargain,na dis recharge card money wey my guy and him babe take dem dey find am wit jack bauer
- Musediku Olalekan Ganiyu @arowolo, Leave am, leave am, is what makes crime to be increasing in our society. That money create houses for more than 5O nigerian, it alleviate the poverty level of millions of nigeria if judiciously used. Anything that belong to the public is never small. So the money is not small. Let him face his music.
- Jessy Brewer Why should he face d music when the so called politicians steal more nd get away with it as baron rightly said . @ Musediku
- Rechard Jacob · 2 mutual friendsY did RMD swich off his phone? Nd wat kind of Expo they intended 2 oganise wit fifty million naira? Wat impart its going 2 make in d livies of Deltans? If found wanting let Him nd his colaborators go in 4 it. Only God knows hw much they are embezzing 4rm Delta state tresury on a daily base, bt d wicked wil nt go unponished
- Musediku Olalekan Ganiyu @jessy, We don't have to encourage bad things in our society. If you says nigeria never spoil, nigeria never pafuka and i also agree with you. Who will then make nigeria good. Or things that get spoiled are not repairable. I want you to know that if he that steal hundred today is not checkmated today, he will definately steal trillion tomorow and also send signal to others to do same. We have to correct the little rung in our society so big rung will not or never surface itself.
- Kehinde Adenike I wil stil not believe it bcos actors re models n his name is an household name n for dis reason he wil not stoop so low to do this but if it is true, then let God n posterity judge him.
- Jessy Brewer Abeg lef matter cos d country itself has being corrupt before ur existence so let's call a spade a spade . Shikena ! @ musediku
- Bright Lyricle Gentlebishop Ichenwo @ Jessy Brewer dont support evil oh. We all want a possitive change u know???
- Jessy Brewer And who says am supporting evil now u see dats d problem with u nigerians excuse me to say bunch of hypocrites @ Bright
- James Sinach Anuforo Make una free dem abeg, y efcc knw go probe all diz federal ministers. All na wash sha.
- Olubobokun Victor Jide He should pay N100,000 to judiciary from the N50M and take the balance that is the precedent (Judiciary action)
