Managing Director of Divine Dopacy Nigeria Limited, Mr. Gbenga Collins, has informed the House of Representatives Committee investigating the phantom Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) of how he paid about N400 million for a contract.
He told the panel that the money was paid to the purported Director-General of the fake Council, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, after being promised a contract to renovate and furnish what was presented to him as the official residence of the agency’s chief executive.
He said his familiarity with Adeyemi, whom he described as a fellow indigene of Ogbomoso, coupled with the appearances of government authority around him, misled him to believing that the purported council was legitimate.
“When I arrived at the airport, he sent an official car to come and pick me from the airport to his office at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja.
“When I got to his office, I met him there. He is a well-known man in Ogbomoso. I met a lot of people, very big dignitaries in his office, and I met a group of security officers guarding the office,” he said.
According to him, Adeyemi presented himself as the Director-General of both the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), and the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC).
“I saw police officers with him. That was my first time of coming to Abuja because I’m not familiar with Abuja very well. He sent his official car to pick me from the airport. It had a Federal Government registration number attached to the Lexus SUV,” he said.
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