Gilbert Ekugbe
The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Europe Russia (NIDO) has raised alarm over the fraudulent activities perpetuated by impersonators hiding under the organisation to deceive and mislead Nigerians.
At a virtual meeting to announce its dissociation from the fraudulent act the organisation described the act as an organised crime to defraud Nigerians and warned that the unscrupulous individual has never been a member of the group.
The Chairman, NIDO Russia and member of the Board, NIDO Europe, Sampson Uwem-Edimo, said NIDO’s attention has been drawn to several public video recordings, publications in the print and electronic media and commercials, in which one individual in Russia, has been confusing or deceiving the public by presenting his entity as the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Russia.
In his words, “The purpose of this conference is to state categorically that we at NIDO Russia completely disassociate ourselves from any information to the public that is unauthorised by NIDO Russia. We have informed the public through the press that nobody can present themselves as who they are when they are not. The person parading himself as Chairman NIDO had never been a member and we have checked the names in the continental level and that name has never appeared so this person has never been a member and there is no way you can be a Chairman of an association if you are not a member.”
Also speaking, the NIDO RUSSIA First Chairman and Board Member, Dr. Ayo Ojajune, said the Organisation is aware of the set of people behind the unscrupulous act, maintaining that NIDO has the instrumentation to address the situation.
“We all know those people who are behind this and we have the instrumentation for dealing with them, but unfortunately, we are just starting to use the huge instrumentation that we have to deal with them. It is unfortunate that some people who do not want anything good to come from this country are going to soil our name and this is very disheartening,” he lamented.
