Christian and an international businesswoman, Mrs. Vivian Amadife’s greatest
wish was an opportunity to personally meet Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, a
Catholic priest based in Enugu.
Moved by her belief that as soon as she gets to meet the priest, her life and
businesses will improve, she was excited when her friend of 10 years introduced
her to one Dr Ohamadike, founder of Esoteric World Discovery Limited. She was
told that Dr Ohamadike is highly spiritual that Father Mbaka found him worthy
to be a friend.
The quest, she alleged, cost her a house and about N97 million. She reported
the incident to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which
recovered her house and still
investigating the N97million alleged fraud.
While narrating her ordeal to Saturday Sun, Vivian called on Nigerians to be
wary of such persons whom she alleged defrauded her. She claimed that her
desire to tell her story was as a result of several threats to her life to
drop the case or die and to prevent victims from getting trapped.
many of them and needed to bounce back. I am a spiritual person who believes
so much that with God all things are possible. This was why I became a fan of
Reverend Mbaka.
one of my greatest wishes was to have an audience with Father Mbaka. I knew
quite well that if he lays his hands on me, my life and businesses will never
remain the same. Obiageli told me that her spiritual father, Dr Ohamadike has
direct access to Father Mbaka. To further convince me, she told me that she
had personally witnessed where Father Mbaka called him and they spoke for more
than two hours.
was how I fell into their trap. It was easy for him to tell me anything and I
will fall for it. When I finally met Father Mbaka at my brother-in-law’s
burial, he felt bad. He was screaming and said that he warned people to stop
using his name to lie and steal. He also made it clear that nemesis will
surely catch up with them and they will be exposed.
use this medium to tell Nigerians to be wary of those they trust especially
those that parade themselves as people of God. If anyone could have told me
that my supposedly dearest friend would conspire to dupe me, I would swear that
it is a lie. I have moved on despite the many threats from them. They
threatened to kill me if I do not drop the case. Well, you know if you have God
by your side and do not do things that are questionable, you should not be
afraid, especially when you go to equity with clean hands,” she said.
Obiageli’s friend, she alleged that they met over 10 years ago.
of Enugu Diocese, Dr. Onaga introduced both of us at an event. Then I was
building an industry in Enugu and she was producing pure water. Considering the
link, I was at peace to be friends with her since I do not know anybody in
Enugu State.
till she lured me into staying in her house at 1, Ideoha Street, Independence
Layout. Then her housegirl used to do the cooking till she decided to be doing
it herself,” Vivian said.
her newfound friend decided to prepare her every meal.
to her spiritual friend, whose nickname was Dr Ohamadike. She told me that it
was the man’s prayer that made it possible that as rich as she was, kidnappers
and armed robbers had never remembered her. I never took her seriously till
kidnappers picked my friend’s son. Although the boy was later found, the family
paid so much money. I was made to believe that it was his intervention that
saw to the release of the boy. Before then I had parted with 1000 dollars which
I was asked to pay to facilitate the prayers that will touch the heart of the
kidnappers to release the boy.
informed my friend who told me that if I don’t give money to Ohamadike that I
will not experience any form of miracle. It was then that I was made to believe
that Ohamadike was one of Mbaka’s close friends and confidants. She assured me
that my business which was at a dwindling stage will surely pick up. She told
me that Ohamadike was the only one that can assist me to get quick appointment
with the priest.
stomachache. It was so bad that all efforts to get a cure failed. Desperate
not to lose my son, I consulted him. He told me that before he cures anyone
that he must conduct a spiritual search through his ministry known as Esoteric
World Discovery Limited,” Vivian said.
trapped when Dr Ohamadike assured her that the American business that she got
involved with will further yield her so much money.
supposed friend was sharing my life story with him. I was ready to do anything
possible to make progress in life. I trusted him and the prayer that he was conducting
on my behalf. Most especially I had hope that he was working on getting me an
appointment with Father Mbaka. He told me that God was using him on behalf of
Mbaka to bless me.
agreed to fund. I even contacted my friend to be part of the Forex trading
and she invested about N16million. All the money was paid directly into the
man’s Esoteric World Discovery Limited account.
fraudulent transaction. She came to my house crying that she has lost her
money. I tried to assure her but she told me that Dr Ohamadike had emptied his
account. I had to pay the N16 million back to Pamela with my own money in order
to convince her that I was not part of the scam and again, her yelling was
becoming uncontrollable. I later went to Obiageli who introduced me to Dr Ohamadike
and told her to call the man, because I knew they were still talking on the
phone. I also told her the story of how the man bolted with Pamela’s money. She
kept assuring me that the man said he would bring back the money,” she narrated.
Vivian decided to take the matter to EFCC.
police. Unknown to me, she informed him of my intentions.
that had been stalled since 2011. I am the company’s sole agent in the whole of
Africa, but their production was being delayed and millions of naira was
trapped in the deal. I can’t explain what came over me as I accepted him back
and continued spending money in the name of prayers. Part of what he told me
about my American business was that my contact person in US who is also
in-charge of that deal would soon go blind, but I foolishly begged him not to
allow the man go blind because he invented what would benefit the whole
world.
was going to take so much money from me,” she said.
that when she had run out of cash, Dr Ohamadike allegedly requested for a
post-dated cheque.
the cheques but refused to put a date on them. I told him that when the goods
are imported from US and I start selling, he will be taking his own share of
the money for not allowing the producer of the product to go blind. This would
be done as soon as the money from sales come in, so he agreed and I gave him
ten cheques – of 10 million each, totalling N100 million without dates.
police and told them he gave me money to build a factory for him for N100 million,
which I did not build. That the cheques I gave him for loan repayment bounced
and the bank returned them to him. He was doing all these because I threatened
to arrest him. She called me threatening that he was in Lagos with policemen
from Abuja and if I don’t come and meet them, I will suffer. Luckily, all
efforts to lure me to the hotel failed,” she said.
sent her lawyer to go and find out what was actually happening.
to find out what was going on. My lawyer warned me that they were no policemen
but fraudsters. I told him to stay with them there while I alerted the Lagos
CP, who immediately gave me some officers who came and arrested them.
said that he hired some men to pose as policemen. We also arrested his fake
lawyer in the hotel. They were immediately moved to the Lagos State police command
headquarters in Ikeja.
for forgiveness. He told the CP that he is a guy man (fraudster) and should be
forgiven. He promised that he would pay me back my money. It was when he jumped
bail that I arrested my friend, Obiageli and took her to the police special
fraud unit, SFU, Milverton road. Ikoyi. One of her friends now called and
begged me to release her that they will get Innocent wherever he was hiding,
which he did. He was re-arrested at Abakaliki.
Luckily, at EFCC, they recovered my house which he and my so-called friend
stole from me. He collected the house after milking me dry and I could no
longer meet his financial demands. He even lied to the police that he
bought my house and gave me money. I now challenged him in the presence of the
police to show evidence of how he paid me. He lied to them that he paid me in
dollars.
the fence of that house, put new fence, gave my tenants quit notice. It was
like a magic to me. Upon arrest, EFCC searched his house, found my house
documents and handed them over to me. My undated cheques that he forged and
put dates on are still with the police and they are yet to give them to EFCC,”
she narrated.
to assist her in recovering her money which was fraudulently taken from her.
have only retrieved N1million out of N97m plus. I want justice to prevail and
deserving punishment meted out to the culprits to serve as a deterrent to
others. So far, Dr Ohamadike collected more than N97 million most of which passed
through his Esoteric World Discovery Limited Zenith bank account. He also
collected my house in Enugu which was worth over N35 million. This fraud took
place between 2013 and 2014,” Vivian alleged.
suspects were after her life and would stop at nothing to terminate her life.
fighting Dr Ohamadike and my so-called friends for defrauding me of my entire
life’s savings and sweat. They have made several attempts but failed.
has not been apologetic. She has been in and out of EFCC and has also sued for
her fundamental human rights, but lost on two occasions, even at the Federal
High Court.
in investigating and prosecuting the suspect. Bishop Onaga on his part had made
it clear that he will not support my money to go down the drain. He has equally
told me to go ahead and retrieve my money through any legal means,” Vivian
narrated.