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Original Post Date: 2010-08-01 Time: 17:00:05 Posted By: News Poster
By Ebere Uzoukwa
Owerri – The job recruitment directorate of Imo state government otherwise known as Imo Job Center has allegedly defrauded 14 jobless youths in the state under the guise of securing employment for them in far away Dubai that would have earned each of them a monthly salary of $1500. The outfit established by Gov. Ikedi Ohakim moment after he assumed position as governor of the state has one Prof. Obioma Iheduru as the director.
Iheduru, it was confirmed by LEADERSHIP SUNDAY collected N460,000 from each of the unsuspecting youths to process the deal. But, unfortunately, the victims were dumped in Dubai and only managed to return to Nigeria through the intervention of Nigerian Embassy United Arab emirate and contributions by their parents at home.
Narrating their ordeal to Leadership Sunday in Owerri, one of the victims who gave his name as Kingsley Ubanzeh, accompanied by four others said that the whole episode started in August 2009, when Imo Job Centre under the leadership of Prof. Obioma Iheduru promised to secure jobs for them in Dubai.
“Each of us paid a total of Four Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira (N460,000) to Imo Job Centre in Diamond Bank with Account Nos. 0172130000801. The money was paid due to the terms provided in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which stated as follows; the provision of employment visa, 3 years resident/work permit, job with a salary of 1500 dollars, accommodation and air ticket.
The memo further stated that failure to provide the terms above, every bit of the money paid shall be refunded with interest.”
He further explained that in April 2010 prior to the completion of the above payment , three months visas were issued to them which stimulated them to speedily complete the payment but were surprised at the point of departure precisely on 13th June, 2010 when they discovered that the three months visas earlier issued to them were fake as they were changed with two weeks visas with a promise that as soon as they got to Dubai, the visas would be extended to three months.
” When we finally got to Dubai, we were checked into a hotel called Trans-word Hotel Diera by one Mr. Sabastine Chuks, a business man based in Dubai , whom we later discovered was the agent that prepared our visa. After spending some days in the hotel without hearing from the Director of Imo Job Centre, Prof. Oboma Iheduru, we decided to call him. Each time we called, he would only promise that he would remit money through his consultant” he said.
Ubanzeh who said that most of their parents sold their properties to sponsor the trip, stated that when it became obvious that they were dumped in Dubai, with three days remaining for their two weeks visas to expire and the risk of going to prison following several threats from the hotel management over the accumulated bill, they decided to contact the Nigerian Embassy in Abu Dhabi which made the Ambassador to send one of the staff who confirmed their situation.
“It was the Ambassador’s intervention that compelled the agent, Mr. Sabastine Chuks to borrow money and pay for the hotel bills while we phoned our parents who sent us money to pay for our over stay charges and airline surcharges which cost us extra six hundred and fifty seven thousand seven hundred and twenty Naira.(N657,720)”, he said.
Ubanzeh, who made available to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY a copy of the fake three months visa earlier issued to lure them in making full payment said they wanted the Imo Job Centre to refund of their money that was sunk in the abortive project. “When we came back and reported to the Director of Imo Job Center for our refund , he did not give us a specific and concrete promise about when to refund us and that is why we are appealing to whom it may concern to help us get back our money from Prof. Obioma Iheduru” he lamented.
Asked whether they have reported the matter to anti-graft agency, Ubanze replied in affirmative. “We have reported to ICPC here in Owerri but it appeared the agency has compromised. As it stands now, we don’t have confidence on how it has been going about the matter” he said. When LEADERSHIP SUNDAY visited the Owerri zonal office of ICPC, its coordinator, Barr. Ifeanyi Nwigwe said the commission is on top of the matter .
He stated that the commission had detained Prof. Iheduru and his agent, one Mr. George who is the Executive Director of Harts Travel Tours that packaged the trip. He further told Leadership Sunday that they have recovered and refunded the twenty persons who couldn’t complete their payment for the trip while it remained those that traveled and got stranded in Dubai.
Nwigwe debunked the allegation that his office compromised saying that the commission is only applying caution so as to ensure that the victims get their money before going into persecution .
But, Prof. Iheduru told a different story when Leadership Sunday visited his office. He admitted that those who did not make the trip have been fully refunded while those that traveled did that at their own risk after his organization canceled and warned them not to continue with the trip.
The embattled professor who claimed to have gone to court to clear his battered name over the Dubai job, also made available a copy of a letter dated 3rd June, 2010, that was addressed to the Executive Director of Hats Aviation and Tours conveying the cancellation of the trip.
Original date published: 25 July 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201007260621.html?viewall=1