Emmanuel Onoja, a Nigerian Correctional Service officer, has been accused of failing to refund N300,000 to Dorcas Aboh-Uduh, a Makurdi-based teacher, after allegedly collecting the sum in 2020 with a promise to secure her employment.
Aboh-Uduh said she met Onoja through a friend he was processing a job for at the time. Her friend had already paid Onoja N150,000, with the agreement that she would pay the balance once she received her appointment letter. Onoja’s brother, who was a choir master at Aboh-Uduh’s friend’s church, had also told her that his brother had secured jobs for others, but despite all of this, the job deal fell through.
“After a year, when it was so glaring that he was just pranking us, she (Aboh-Uduh’s friend) got the police involved. She pressured the younger brother. That one then informed Onoja that the police were about to be involved. He paid N100,000, and after some weeks, he sent the N50,000 balance. That was how her own story ended,” Aboh-Uduh recounted. At that time, March 2020, Aboh-Uduh had paid Onoja, too. Considering her friend’s experience, she also demanded her refund, but since then, Onoja has remained adamant.
Even after Aboh-Uduh got a lawyer to serve Onoja a letter, he acted as if he received nothing, giving no response. However, a recent report confirmed that Onoja sent the N300,000 to someone in the NCoS headquarters identified as Ademu Emmanuel. He also claimed he had sent a petition about the same issue and was waiting for an update.
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