In Abuja's corridors of manufactured authority, a Nigerian businessman surrendered N400 million to a man who had assembled every symbol of state power — official vehicles, uniformed escorts, federal office space — without possessing any of it. Gbenga Collins, trusting the grammar of legitimacy over its substance, borrowed heavily from associates and paid in installments across three months before the fiction collapsed entirely. Now before a House of Representatives committee, his testimony illuminates something older than any single fraud: the way institutional trust, once weaponized, can holl
Businessman recounts N400m payment to fake agency director in House probe
Businessman reports severe financial distress, has begun selling personal property, and business operations have deteriorated due to the fraud.