The Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police has arrested an official of the Federal Capital Development Authority over an alleged N25 million land fraud.
The suspect, 45, Hajara Egbara, allegedly fraudulently collected the money from an unnamed victim under the guise of helping her to secure a genuine plot of land in the Federal Capital Territory.
It was learnt that Egbara and one other person, still at large, twice showed the victim two different plots of land, which were found out to belong to other people.
The spokesperson of the SFU, Ngozi Izintume-Agu, said: “SFU has arrested Hajara Egbra in a case of obtaining the sum of N25 million under false pretences. A petition dated June 5, 2013 alleged that in 2009, the petitioner, a business woman purchased a plot of land measuring 2,500 sq. metre within Asokoro Extension, Abuja from the suspect on an agreed sum of N25 million and the payment was made in three instalments of Ten Million Naira and Eight Million naira. The suspect issued a receipt with Invoice No. 0073 dated 29/09/2009 and Invoice No. 0201 dated 06/10/2009.”
The petitioner further alleged that the third payment of N5 million was paid through First Bank cheque No. 01795293, dated December 19, 2012 and stated that it was while she was trying to process the building plan and other related documents that she discovered that she had been duped.
The police further said: “The suspect actually sold to her a land that already had an owner and the suspect gave her another plot which she had already fenced with the sum of N450,000.00 and was later told by the suspect that the plot was equally not vacant.”
Egbra was arrested along with one Mohammed Sadiq.
Egbra, a Technical Officer with the Federal Capital Development Authority, also doubles as a business woman with a shop at Garki Modern Market, Abuja.
She allegedly confessed to the allegation levelled against her.
Egbara said she gave N18.5 million to one Alhaji Mohammed Sadiq, a developer, while the remaining balance was for her services.
Sadiq also confessed to have collected N18.5 million from Egbara.
Sadiq has however since jumped bail.
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