By: Manoah Kikekon
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| Betty Wata and Abraham Jobua |
BADAGRY, Nigeria – A sprawling Ghanaian fraud syndicate, operating under the guise of an international travel agency and linked to the multi-level marketing company Qnet, has been exposed in Badagry, Lagos State. The ring’s collapse followed the harrowing ordeal of Sandra Ofori, a Ghanaian woman who believed she was travelling to Poland for work, only to be imprisoned and coerced into a scam upon arrival in Nigeria.
The network was dismantled on Sunday, December 14, 2025, thanks to the investigative efforts of renowned journalist Manoah Kikekon.
Acting on a tip, Kikekon tracked the case of Ofori, who was being held against her will. “I got intel that a lady en route to Poland had arrived in Badagry and was being held,” Kikekon told News Peddlers. After gathering information and trailing her movements, he intercepted her at the Badagry Roundabout just as her captors were attempting to transport her to the Seme Border for abandonment.
In an emotional account, Sandra Ofori detailed the deception that began in Ghana. She explained that a family friend, Mrs. Betty Wata, who had claimed to be living in Poland, convinced her mother to send Sandra abroad for lucrative work. After an initial registration fee of 2,000 Ghana Cedis, the fraudsters demanded a staggering 30,000 Ghana Cedis (approximately 4.8 million Naira). “Since my mother did not have the money, we used our house and land as collateral to borrow the money,” Ofori revealed.
The scheme escalated when Wata instructed Ofori to fly to Lagos on December 6, 2025, claiming there was no direct flight to Poland from Ghana. Picked up from the airport at night, Ofori was taken to a location in Badagry. “The following day, they told me I'm not going to any Poland, that this is the place I'm staying and I have to join Qnet,” she said. They informed her she must recruit more people from Ghana. “I told them I can't do it, I can't tell lies to my friends,” Ofori stated, recounting how she refused to eat and cried incessantly until her planned disposal at the border.
Investigations revealed that Sandra Ofori’s brother was the first victim in the family, having paid 20,000 Ghana Cedis earlier. He was forced to maintain the illusion of being in Poland to relatives, a strategy directly used to lure his sister. This pattern of using coerced victims to recruit from their own communities is a hallmark of the ring’s operations.
Following Sandra Ofori’s rescue, journalist Kikekon reported the case to the police. A joint operation traced the suspects to a swamp-side apartment in Atinporome, Badagry, where six Ghanaian nationals were arrested.
Authorities identified the ringleaders as Abraham Jobua and the aforementioned Betty Wata, who remains are not in police custody.