Delta PDP Assembly Aspirant In N200m Land Acquisition Scandal

It was learnt that the aspirant’s business partner, one Alex Okafor Belushi who reportedly became a victim to the scam has resorted to using of a local deity (iyi), to get the aspirant to pay him his money.

Belushi was said to have facilitated the acquisition of the land for the aspirant in Abuja with a deal to pay him his commission of N40million but the said aspirant reneged on the agreement thus forcing the victim to drag him before Iyi, a deity.

Sensing danger, the aspirant whose notoriety is widespread in the area was said to have ran to traditional authority in their area to intervened and the monarch in his verdict told the accused aspirant to pay his victim the balance of N39 million having paid N1million earlier, and with a charge on the victim to go to the Iyi and withdraw the case.

Belushi who gave graphic details of transaction said: “The business between us was about land wherein he fronted somebody, one of his boys. So he has refused to pay me my money due to me, and now I have to go the first time to the ‘Iyi’ to report him, but he ran to the traditional authority to report me that I reported him to ‘Iyi’.

“The authority invited us. That was on the 11th of December last year. May be he thought that the authority would support him. So when we came that day, we all stated our sides of the matter before the authority. At the end, the authority ruled that he should go and pay me my money and I should go and withdraw the matter from the iyi.

“So I went to the Iyi to withdraw it. But when I got there, the Iyi people said that if the traditional authority said that they should withdraw the matter, that there should be  a time frame for him to pay me the money. So we now came back, told the traditional authority, who asked me how many months that I needed for him to pay the money. I now told him, three months would be okay, because he is in possession of the land, having gotten all the papers of the land.

“So the three months had lapsed by March ending this year 2018. So I now went to the traditional authority to let him know that this was March ending, I have not heard from the fraudster-aspirant. However, the authority promised to get through to him and get back to me.

“So since that time, we have waited for the fraudster-aspirant to pay me my money, and he hasn’t paid me…So, having no other option, I then went back to the Iyi and reported the matter again for them to ask him to pay me my money. So that is all what it is.

“Consequently, the Iyi people have requested him on the 21th of August to appear before them on the 1st of September 2018, and I am aware he has been fully communicated through a letter which was served on him through his father’s house at Issele-Uku in line with their tradition. I have a copy of the letter; I will not want to expose it, just like that. It is a traditional thing, you know.

The victim further hinted that, the nature of the business they did was on land.  He disclosed: “You know, he (fraudster-aspirant) deals on properties and development of properties in Abuja. So there was this land that he was interested in and I was the one who was in charge of the land. So he now negotiated my stake in these hectares of land, by saying that I should just collapse my stake into his own, that he would pay me N40 million. He said I should collapse my stake on that land so that he could take it over, that he wanted the ownership of the land. He pleaded and we agreed on a stake of N40 million; on the basis of which I collapsed my interest and ownership was transferred to him.

“So I now collapsed my stake, he went and pushed for it and indeed got the ownership of the land that is valued for over N200 million. Together that land is about six to seven hectares.

“In this case, he said because we are brothers, there should not be need for us not to trust each other but he reneged and betrayed the trust reposed on him”.