The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Emmanuel Kachikwu, has raised the alarm that fraudsters have created phony accounts in his name on Facebook to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.

In a statement through Ohi Alegbe, the spokesperson for corporation, Mr. Kachikwu lamented that the fraudsters were using the phony accounts “to send all manners of scam letters and phantom contract deals cum cash solicitations to some highly placed contacts within and outside the oil and gas industry”.

“While we explore all options to arrest this menace, we wish to advise members of the public to disregard any such Facebook page purportedly belonging to the GMD of NNPC as he does not operate any Facebook account,’’ he added.

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