Enugu State Accuses Sujimoto CEO, Ogundele, Of N5.7bn Fraud

Posted by Ignatius Okpara Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Friday, September 5th, 2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Government has accused the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sujimoto Luxury Construction Limited, Olasijibomi Ogundele, of defrauding the authorities of astir N6bn, saying he  vanished into bladed aerial aft helium was  paid the said sum for the operation of 22 Smart Green Schools successful antithetic parts of the state.

Also, the politician Peter Mbah led government  accused Ogundele of premeditated fraud, explaining that portion helium presented a enslaved issued by Jaiz Bank to unafraid the contract, helium utilized the company’s Zenith Bank relationship registered with the state’s Ministry of Works and Infrastructure to person the said payment, making it intolerable for the authorities to clasp Jaiz Bank liable.

The clarifications were contained successful a connection issued by the Enugu State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dr. Malachy Agbo, connected Friday.

“For the avoidance of doubt, connected July 2, 2024, the Enugu State Government awarded a declaration successful the sum of N11,457,930,950.52 to Sujimoto Luxury Construction Ltd for the operation of 22 Smart Schools (buildings only) successful six months starting from the day of the acceptance of the award.

“The Enugu State Government paid the sum of N5,762,565,475.25, representing 50 per cent of the declaration sum, successful bid to fast-track the projects astatine each the sites.

“Rather than play to the rules of the declaration to present prime projects for furnishing and equipping up of September 2025 schoolhouse resumption, successful enactment with the precedence placed connected the Smart Green Schools inaugural by the government, Mr. Ogundele resorted to shoddy jobs and the usage of inexperienced workers and quack engineers. 

“None of his sites met the structural integrity of the projects arsenic specified successful the structural drawing. 

“Worse still, helium vanished into bladed aerial with the money. All efforts made by the authorities to get him to a roundtable to sermon the prime and advancement of enactment proved abortive. 

“He arsenic refused to be the periodic projects briefing organised by the authorities authorities for each contractors oregon instrumentality galore calls and messages enactment crossed to him.

“In fact, helium practically abandoned the sites, leaving the Enugu State Government with nary different prime than to petition the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to retrieve the funds paid to him.

“A associated squad of officers of the Enugu State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure and the EFCC visited the 22 sites to measure the advancement of enactment connected May 8 and 9, 2025, wherever it was intelligibly established that determination had been minimal to nary important enactment done astatine the said sites 1 twelvemonth aft the declaration award.

” In immoderate cases, helium fraudulently did not bash excavation for each the blocks successful site.

“It is besides connected grounds that helium has not shown up astatine the sites oregon made himself disposable to either the authorities authorities oregon the instrumentality enforcement agencies adjacent aft those tract visits.

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