Philo Nkem Ajufo, the acting General Manager of Delta State Tourism Board, has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja over her role in a financial scheme. Ms. Ajufo is reportedly being quizzed for conniving with her boss, Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD), to embezzle N50 million from the state Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Mr. Mofe Damijo, a well known Nollywood star, is the commissioner in charge of the ministry. Our EFCC said the commissioner was also being sought by the anti-corruption agency, but he has been elusive.

An EFCC source confirmed Ms. Ajufo’s arrest. “As we talk, the Delta State Tourism GM, one Mrs. Nkem Ajufo, is been held in our headquarters here in Abuja over her involvement in the N50 million fraud. Her boss, Mr. Richard Mofe Damijo, is not left out but as we speak he is still avoiding us,” said the source.


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Rmd you see your life, being disgraced over petty cash. You people should leave Uduaghan to run delta state alone but you insist you must be commissioner-poverty stricken commissioner.

House boys and drivers of ibori's commissioners made more than this and efcc didn't harass them. I pray you get arrested and sent to jail.

RMD should go and clear his name or just pay the money, 50m isnt something he should act like a coward. After all he went into politics for the money, you dont eat roasted plantain without staining your fingers with oil and Charcoal. Politics is not for cowards.

WTF

y dis guy dey act like dis?.... RMD... go meet efcc, give dem 250,000 as bail, and walk home as free as a bird... notin do u....

bros migoo WTF

Hmm, E don happen

Hmmmm...

Politics is bitterly sweet.

No. 7 bah?

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I don't know WTF they're but I gotta say for the first time #007 to comment • now can I get a Nigerian big assss ho?

RMD PART 1

Nice movies

When other people dey steal billions pay bail 200k, chop the rest na only 50milli were rmd fit come thief, #i think he is a learner

Nonsense Journalism

Richard Mofe-Damijo? This is serious!

I guess d saying innocent until proven guilty means nothing to u niggaz

The same RMD we know? Something seems to be amiss for sure.

This is sure gonna be a blockburster in nollywood, I say RMD taking the character RMD. Can't wait

How funny, can life be! this is a man that told vien tetsola that Tuface was not good enough for her he wasn't educated and didn't have money, now that 50m tuface can dash him without a blink now he running away because of 50m RMD, you big pass this O! See the legacy u are leaving

1 shortblackboy: I guess d saying innocent until proven guilty means nothing to u niggaz

I agree with you blackboy

This curruption thing has eaten into Naija. Who knows how they battle with there conscience b4 embezzling d money. RMD is another bad example to the youths n kids (the future leaders) he should be arrested for his crime or requested to pay back.

Damn!! RMD? How come?

Hmmmmmm, 9ja for u. So even those we think they are freedom fighter, they can also involved in these mess.

Haba RmD ....u go go jail for steal common 50m....if u wan steal make sure u steal billions if not Nija go finish u....na so e b for Nija ask maina ...yisuf n co..

To be a 'big boy' in Nigeria is not easy.

iamnigeria: Philo Nkem Ajufo, the acting General Manager of Delta State Tourism Board, has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja over her role in a financial scheme. Ms. Ajufo is reportedly being quizzed for conniving with her boss, Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD), to embezzle N50 million from the state Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Mr. Mofe Damijo, a well known Nollywood star, is the commissioner in charge of the ministry. Our EFCC said the commissioner was also being sought by the anti-corruption agency, but he has been elusive.
An EFCC source confirmed Ms. Ajufo’s arrest. “As we talk, the Delta State Tourism GM, one Mrs. Nkem Ajufo, is been held in our headquarters here in Abuja over her involvement in the N50 million fraud. Her boss, Mr. Richard Mofe Damijo, is not left out but as we speak he is still avoiding us,” said the source.






Two sources at the ministry told our reporter that the EFCC last week delivered a letter inviting Ms. Ajufo to appear at their headquarters. She was reportedly asked to bring along relevant documents concerning the N50 million that was meant for the purported 2007 Delta Expo event which never held.

The sources disclosed that Mr. Mofe Damijo went underground on learning about the current development.
One source told our reporter that the commissioner, who is reported to be building himself a massive underground edifice in Lagos was trying to use political contacts in Delta and Abuja to scuttle the EFCC’s investigation and washed his hands off the scam.

SaharaReporters learnt that Mr. Mofe Damijo denied knowledge of the money during the budget defense exercise.
Several calls and sms texts sent to Mr. Damijo and Ms. Ajufo’s mobile lines were not answered. After a while, the commissioner switched off his mobile phone.

Late last year, Saharareporters had broken the news of the N50 million allegedly embezzled by the commissioner and the acting GM of the state’s tourism board.

Several sources in the commissioner’s office had confided that a former commissioner in the Ministry had applied for the N50 million to organize the “Delta State Expo 2007,” disclosing that the state could not release the funds then due to some financial challenges. However, when the funds were released into the Tourism account in May, 2012, Mr. Mofe Damijo allegedly said that the ministry could no longer carry out the event since it had elapsed by six years and Deltans would have forgotten about the event.

But our reporter obtained “Forms of Advance Warrant” on release of funds from the Ministry of Finance indicating that the N50 million was supposed to be spent on the original event for which it was approved. The warrant order, numbered 00000117, 00000114 and 00000115, was signed by one Ms. P.O. Evuojapha for the Commissioner of Finance.
SaharaReporters learnt that N35 million of the N50 million was supposed to have gone to the tourism board.
A reporter for SaharaReporters learned that Mr. Mofe Damijo issued a check to the tourism board in the name of its acting GM, Ms. Ajufo. She in turn reportedly deposited the sum into her First Bank private account with account number (3006131619) operated under her name, Nkem Philo Ajufo. Our sources said she and Mr. Mofe Damijo subsequently shared the money.

Source - http://www.iamnigeria.net/2013/02/n50-million-fraud-rmd-reportedly-on-run.html

he's gone underground and building a massive underground mansion? is he an undertaker? Or how comes he loves underground so much.

ebamma: When other people dey steal billions pay bail 200k, chop the rest na only 50milli were rmd fit come thief, #i think he is a learner

Hw do u mean? are u proud of those stealing billions? am happy EFCC is now on his neck,soon they will catch him and jail he. The money was made for d state n not for only 2 of them to eat. Wicked ass.

Integrity can only be tested with the position of resposibility,wait to be tested with one before u condemn others, in Nigeria corruption now run through gene.so serious.