Police are not kidnappers, businessman tells US-based Nigerian accused of $350,000 fraud

Chris Iheanacho, owner of Environaid Technologies Limited, has asked Jim Nnah, a Nigerian based in the US, to come back to the country to clear the allegations of fraud levelled against him.

Nnah, chairman of Biowich African Limited, had entered into a deal with Ihenacho but the deal went bad.

Denying being involved in any fraud, Nnah had said Environaid reneged on their agreement and when he engaged another company, Iheanacho started a campaign of calumny against him.

In a recent statement, Iheanacho said the contract terms serve as proof that Nnah is a suspected fraudster whose intentions from onset “was to defraud us”.

After studying the case, the authorities concluded that this is a classic case of obtaining under false pretense under section 419 of the criminal code.

“If his conscience will permit him, Nigeria is his fatherland, let him present himself for interrogation and clear his name rather than hide in the US or sneak into Nigeria  and continue to make inflammatory comments,” Iheanacho said.

According to NAFDAC  guidelines, a NAFDAC permit number must be approved and branded boldly on the product before any such product is approved for consumption in Nigeria or imported.

“Mr Nnah’s assertion and claims of requiring a warehouse for storage are purely speculative and bullocks because after over a year since the payments of $350,000.00 were made Mr Nnah has refused to produce any evidence or shipping documentation to back up his claims that the products are available and in country,” he said.

“Let him come and show the police where the goods are, or with  a verifiable shipping and customs documents. We have willingly co-operated with the authorities and also provided a copy of the contract terms to the authorities for review and after careful study they on their own came to the conclusion that Mr Nnah defrauded our firm.

“Mr Nnah shamelessly continued to spin his web of lies and eventually convinced us to release the sum of 500,000 naira for NAFDAC certification and facilitation even though he had failed to produce any shipping documentation. All this course of events led us to come to the unfortunate reality that we have been scammed.

“Mr Nnah is an experienced fraudster as claimed by the Police and Justice Ministry, who has the intention to defraud other companies and he has subsequently been charged by the Police at the High Court as numerous other firms as per his newspaper advert, which we sent a rejoinder to warn the general public calling for distributorship and cash deposit  he has defrauded by collecting their money without delivery of any product to them have come forward to petition the special fraud unit (SFU) of the police force, the Justice Ministry has requested for his extradition.

“I am disappointed with the American Government whom we have petitioned to at least investigate this suspected fraudster hiding in their country to evade justice. We have information that after receiving our payments he purchased numerous exotic cars, a residential apartment including an office building. Instead of investigating Mr Nnah the American government is making a mockery of the Nigerian legal system by not holding Mr Nnah accountable for his suspected criminal activity. Mr Nnah has subsequently filed a case against myself, my companies (Enercon Nigeria Limited & Enviro Aid) and the Nigerian police  that his fundamental human rights were violated which the high court swiftly threw out and he went further to appeal the judgment just to delay justice.

“I challenge the American government to do the right thing and honor their extradition agreement with  Nigeria. Mr Nnah should end his cowardly game of hide and seek. The Nigerian police are not kidnappers or murderers. We are imploring Mr Nnah to come forward and prove his innocence before a Nigerian court of law.”