₦airaland Forum

Fraud is an English word which depicts an act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and unlawful gain. A con act. Unfortunately, this word has reinvented its etymology almost flawlessly in the Nigerian social space.

Such is the enormity of fraud and its equally repugnant sisters in arm like graft, dishonesty, con and corruption that current Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has identified them as his country's sole inhibitor to any meaningful progress.

Sadly, President Buhari is currently hospitalized assumedly based on the weight of corruption battles he has had to fight.

The temporary winners are such conmen, fraudsters and morally debased Nigerians like one Mr Rabiu Abdulafis also known as Olashina Ayinde Alex and his girlfriend one Umar Zainab Olanike of Alex travel solution under tabeer tourism LLC Dubai. In an age of grinding recession and indescribable poverty.

This young man under the umbrella of tabeer tour llc has chosen the ignoble path of trickery, con, deceit, fetishisms, bribery, corruption, fraud and wanton disregard for any form of social order.

Unfortunately, his victims today are the same people who are already financially crippled by the consequence of official corruption and the immediate hopelessness of Nigeria's current situation.

From whom then shall the oppressed seek solace? Verified findings and documents submitted to the office of the Department of state service (DSS) Oyo state chapter show clearly that this morally debased fraudster, Mr Rafiu abdulafis duped ten unsuspecting victims of a total of nine million naira under the pretext of securing for them visas to Dubai, the united Arabs Emirates on January 23rd 2017.

This high handedness and premeditated act of deception and advanced fee fraud is both condemnable and worrisome in the light of Nigeria's recent battle to rid her people of their world famous tendency for dishonesty.

Fortunately, the DSS is currently on the lookout for Mr Rabiu Abdulhafis and his accomplices in this fraud case. Who knows? Like the popular kidnapper who recently met his Waterloo, people like Rabiu Abdulhafis when apprehended by the DSS, can serve as a deterrent to crooked people like him who relentlessly continue to soil Nigeria's image in the committee of decent nations.