A man called Nuhu Ibrahim Shuaibu, also known as Ishaku Abdulrazak has set himself leagues above his fraudulent counterparts by pulling off a successful impersonation of the NNPC Group Director, which allowed him to dupe his victims to the tune of over 100 million naira.
His journey came to an end when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) caught up to his nefarious acts and threw him behind bars. However, there are lots of questions lingering in the minds of Nigerians on how this dark genius managed to pull off a scam of this magnitude.
Well, it was gathered that Shuaibu started introducing himself to one of his victims in 2017 as the NNPCL’s Group Executive Director, promising to assist his prey procure over 2000 litres of petroleum products.
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Having projected enough confidence and blinded the victim, Faisal Safiyanu, through false documents and ID cards, Safiyanu transferred the huge amount of forty-seven million and fifty thousand naira.
After Shuaibu received the illegal amount of cash in his bank account, he obviously couldn’t fulfill his own part of the bargain, so he stopped communications with his victim. Safiyanu already began to sense that this was a lost deal, so he demanded that Shuaibu refund his money in full, but the hardened scammer refused.
That wasn’t the only scam Shuaibu pulled off. A year earlier in 2017, he connived with one Ilya Garba, who is now deceased, to obtain money from unsuspecting victims under false pretenses. The EFCC has caught up with him and found out through investigation that he duped his victims of over 100 million naira in total.
A seven-count charge was meted out to him in the court, to which Shuaibu pleaded, “Not guilty.” His counsel, AbdulKareem Audu, couldn’t file a bail application for some reason, so Shuaibu is currently being remanded in the custody of the EFCC.
