Embattled Lady Accuses Her “Benue Brothers” of Defrauding her of N7.5 Million, After Business Goes Bad

By Prosper Okoye –

Janet Aondoshima, 56, has accused Mr. Spencer Tule and Mr. Tavershima Datsu, of defrauding her of the sum of N7.5 million. She described the men as her Tiv brothers from Benue state.

“It had all began on the 26th of September 2020” she says, when she received a call from her long time friend, Hajiah Aisha, who resides in Kano, requesting that she (Janet) should make arrangements for her to buy Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) job slots for her relatives.

Aondoshima happens to be a little familiar with Abuja, as she had often gone there in search of government contracts, thus, she contacted an agent who told her that it would cost N4.5 million to secure each of the jobs.

Aondoshima also called Mr. Spencer’ who offered to give her the slots with his national assembly connection for N3.5 million each. “I fell for it, because it was cheaper in comparison to other offers I got,” she said.

“Spencer Tule has been a close brother and ally. We met in Abuja and had done some contracts together, so I had no cause to doubt him, “Aondoshima says.

She later called Aisha and assured her of the competence of Spencer to deliver the Job slots, if the payments were made.

On the 29th of September 2020, both Aondoshima, Aisha, Spencer and Datsu met in Abuja. Datsu introduced himself as a National Assembly staff attached to the office of the Senate President, with a staff identity card, convincing them of his legitimacy and capability to deliver the jobs.

Aondoshima says she accepted him because he was also a Tiv brother from Benue state.

While they discussed on the timeline for delivering the jobs, Spencer wrote an agreement stating that the job slots would be delivered to Aisha at the end of next month (October 2020), and if it was not provided as promised, all payments made for the job slots would be refunded. He also signed a post-dated cheque to that effect.

“On this same day, Aisha made a transfer of N3 million to my account as part payment for two job slots. I asked her to transfer it to Datsu; she said, ‘it is me she knows and if anything goes wrong I would pay back her money,'” Aondoshima says.

Janet asked to transfer the money to Datsu’s bank account but he refused on the excuse that he was a civil servant and such a huge amount of money can bring him problems from law agencies. On Spencer’s part, he said he cannot receive money in his account as he had pending debit transactions that would be deducted if the money should go in there.

“He asked me to withdraw cash and bring it to them, naive of their plan, I did,” she said.

“On the 30th of September 2020, being the next day, an additional 3million naira was transferred to my account as part payment for additional two job slots, making it four slots in total, and the total sum of N6 million transferred to my account. I also withdrew the N3 million and gave to Spencer, in cash,” she continued.

Aondoshima recounts that she was surprised when she received an alert of N200,000 from Spencer’s account, but didn’t question him. “I took it as an act of generosity from him, or maybe his way of repaying me for my transport fare and other expenses I had incurred, so I called him to thank him; not knowing that the transfer was to implicate me.”

At the end of October 2020, which was the agreed date to deliver the job slots, Aisha was now on her neck; Spencer and Datsu were no longer picking up their calls. Janet took the cheque that Spencer had issued to her, to the bank, so she can cash back the money and refund it to Aisha, but she was told that – for over two years, the bank no longer used the cheque she had.

“I almost collapsed at the Zenith banking hall in Abuja, on hearing this from the cashier,” she says, “but somehow I managed to get hold of myself and I went back home and cried.”

With a photocopy of Datsu’s staff identity card, Janet went on to look for him at the National Assembly, as she could no longer find Spencer. Luckily, she met Datsu and he assured her that they were still working on it.

Spencer later called after some weeks to give excuses for not picking up her calls as he had travelled to the north to execute some contract job his company was handling.

He claimed he didn’t know that it was an old cheque he had issued, as he had kept his old and new cheque books in one purse. He gave her another cheque and asked her to cash it on a future date because there was no money in the account.

He also asked to borrow N1.5 million from her, because his company needs it to collect a loan of N25 million needed to complete the projects he was handling. But a deposit of N1.5 million needed to be made before they can get a loan of N25 million.

He assured her that if Datsu should further delay in securing the job slots, he would give her back all the money she had paid from the N25 million loan.

Aondoshima told him that she has no money but agreed to borrow from a friend, if he has collateral to give.

According to Aondoshima, Spencer came the next day, with original documents of a landed property located at Kubwa, in Abuja. She gave it to her friend as collateral for the loan, and the money was released to her.

“Months grew into years, Spencer was still giving excuses. I met Datsu again and this time he warned me not to bother him. He said I didn’t give him any money; I should go and look for Spencer, she recounted.

“I contacted a lawyer to help write petitions to the police so they can assist me in getting back the money, he did; but didn’t include the N200,000 that was transferred into my account from Spencer’s account.

“So when Spencer was finally arrested, he told the police that it was only N1.5 million that I transferred to his account of which he transferred back the sum of N200,000 to me. He showed them his account statement showing that he made the transfer, and I was detained for criminal conspiracy.

“The police ordered me to repay back N6.2 million to those ‘we defrauded,’ while Spencer should pay back N1.3 million which had evidence that he had received. Datsu was not arrested, he was only invited and the police said I had no case against him.

“I don’t know what to do right now, Aisha and my friend who I had borrowed the last N1.5 million, are threatening me to refund their monies. The documents been stolen, and owner had reported to the police of his missing land documents,” she cried.

Although Doshima has proves of the agreement signed by Spencer and Datsu, with a photocopy of Datsu identity card, and the cheques that Spencer had issued to her;

When Spencer was contacted through a telephone call, he denied Aondoshima’s story and claimed she was mentally deranged.