OLAPADE: THE DIRTY LIES MOHAMMED GOBIR TOLD TO SWINDLE AFROMEDIA PLC OF BILLIONS

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Emmanuel Thomas l Wednesday, March 29, 2017

IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – It was a potpourri of revelation today, when Managing Director of Afromedia Plc, Mr. Akinola Olapade narrated how one of his Executive Directors, Mohammed Gobir told wicked lies to swindle the company.




Olapade tendered compact discs, CDs of telephone conversation he allegedly had with Gobir when it became clear that AFROMEDIA had been swindled.

Gobir is on trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a 17 count charge of stealing, forgery and obtaining by false pretences. According to the EFCC, Gobir defrauded the company through a phoney investment deal he allegedly introduced to Afromedia Plc through their private placement consultant, Synergy Energy Advisory Limited as a high net worth investor willing to inject N1 billion into the company.

He was allegedly appointed Head of Business Development Committee in the board of Directors of the company, a position of trust in which he allegedly used to defraud the company. Gobir allegedly demanded huge sums of money including the $250million from the company as business expenses for a United Kingdom (UK) based Investment consultants, the Royal Exchange Bureau in order to secure investments from a bank in the UK.

The investment deal was never secured and Gobir never refunded the monies he received back to Afromedia Plc.
While being led in evidence by the prosecutor, Mrs. Zainab Etu, at the proceedings, Olopade said “My Lord, after about three years of promises, it was discovered that the promises were a bunch of lies.

“The last straw was at the Afromedia Board meeting held on December 20, 2013, he promised that we will be in London for Christmas and the monies will be released. It was all a lie, his phone was switched off and I later got to know that he travelled to Dubai.

“When I later found out that he had returned to Lagos, I came to visit him and I decided to secretly record all our conversations as I needed evidence of his deceit and I didn’t want to confront him with conversations I had in my memory.




The C.Ds tendered was played in the courtroom where the conversations between the men were in English and Yoruba languages and Gobir could be overheard telling Olopade that the $250million which amounted to N45billion going by the $160 to N1 exchange rate in 2013.

In one of the CDs recorded on Febuary 11, 2013, Gobir could be overheard saying “The $250million is in town, we are trying to clear it with the Central Bank of Nigeria.

“The CBN needed papers to clear the money and we are presently trying to clear it, the CBN have sent me a text message alert,” Gobir said. Olopade stated to court that the expectations from this meeting continued in the coming weeks.

“Gobir said on Feb. 15, 2013 monies were to be released from the N45billion allegedly transferred to him from the CBN.The dollar rate at the time was $160 to N1, all these stories changed till March of that year, till now I don’t know what happened to the money, as he has been coming up with different stories,” he said. Justice presided over by Justice Raliat Adebiyi adjourned the case to April 7 and 10 for continuation of trial.

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