Fake NFA Official Dangles $20m Bait to S/African
By Ayodeji Fashikun
A South African, Mr. Joash Manyasa, has exposed how some fraudulent Nigerians tried to use the name of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) to attempt to defraud him.
Manyasa, who posted the said letter on the Nigerian Scrabble Group, a yahoo website, showed the writer of the letter to bear "Mr. Davis Yoga Paul" with the subject titled 'Business Assistance'.
Davis Yoga Paul claimed to be the Deputy Secretary-General of the NFA in Abuja.
The body of the poorly written letter is reproduced unedited: "I am Mr Davis Yoga Paul, Deputy Secretary-General to the Nigerian Football Association parent body of the World Youths Championship, NIGERIAN 99 Local Organising Committee. An affiliate of Federation of International Football Association (FIFA).
"In the course of our preparation to host the World Youth Soccer Championship Tagged (NIGERIAN 99) some years ago. Huge sum of money running into millions of United States Dollars was budgeted by the then Military Government for the successful organisation of this competition.
"In the same vein, the FIFA President Mr. Joseph (Sepp) Blaster donated some millions of Dollars for the same project, not to talk of Corporate bodies, Organisations and Football loving individual as the Deputy Secretary to both the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and the Nigerian Football Association (NFA), I and some of my colleagues in sensitive position were able to Over-Invoice most of the contracts, construction and refurbishing of the 8 stadia, Press Conference Rooms, Communication facilities and all other infrastructures used for the competition. The contractors who handled these projects had been paid off.
I wish to inform you that the sum of US$18.5 million was realised as a result of Over-Invoicing after the successful competition and the said sum is presently lying in my Organisations (NFA) coded account with the Central Bank of Nigeria, ready for transfer into an overseas account of our choice. It might interest you to know that the New Civilian President of Nigeria has ordered that all Debt owned to foreign contractors should be paid immediately in order to woo more foreign investors into Nigeria.
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