We used fake contract from NSA office to defraud businessman of over N8m – Brothers

A contractor, Ganiyu Oriyomi, thought he had hit a jackpot in 2014 when he met one Ismaila Olatunji, who promised to help him facilitate a juicy building construction contract at the office of the National Security Adviser.

Olatunji paraded himself as an aide to a former NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), before the victim and reportedly swindled him of sums running into N25m to perfect the contract.


City Round learnt that Olatunji knew Oriyomi through his (Olatunji’s) brother, Isiaka Olatunde, a Plaster of Paris engineer engaged by Oriyomi at a building construction site in Offa, Kwara State.

City Round gathered that Oriyomi trusted Olatunde so well that he fell for the claim that Olatunji was an aide to Dasuki.

The fraud reportedly took another dimension after the former NSA was arrested and detained by the Department of State Services.

Olatunji was said to have lied to the victim that his bank account was being monitored by security agents and asked the victim to always give him cash pending when his boss would be released.

It dawned on Oriyomi that he had been defrauded when Olatunji was nowhere to be found after Dasuki was released in 2019.

He then wrote a petition to the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team to investigate the case.

Detectives eventually tracked down the brothers alongside one cleric in Offa, Alhaji Ismail Mustapha, indicted by Olatunde.

Mustapha was later absolved of the crime by the police.

Speaking to City Round during the week, Olatunde, 35, admitted to the fraud but said N8m was collected from Oriyomi.

He said Olatunji asked him to lie against Mustapha, their rich statesman, so he could pay off the money they collected from Oriyomi.

He said the IRT team in Osun State arrested Mustapha and when the pressure was much, the cleric accepted to pay the money and he was released. Punch