How CEO Of Ovaioza Farm Produce Lured Nigerians To Invest Through Her Magnetic Facebook Posts

There are several who marvel at how individuals like Imu Ovaioza Yunusa, creator and CEO of Ovaioza Farm Produce Storage Business (OFPSB), achieve to swindle various Nigerians of their hard-earned cash, and to the tune of billions. Some of the time, people are naive, other times the ‘businessmen’ are undoubtedly smooth.

The Ovaioza. The ‘fake entrepreneur’ duped Nigerians of billions of naira, halting payment of Returns on Investment (ROI) to her depositors since the first quarter of 2021. Through her well-articulated posts on Facebook, the CEO of OFPSB made her clueless preys fall for her false plot in their hundreds.

A PREACHER OF LOVE AND KINDNESS

If there was an event like ‘Virtue Signaling’ at the Olympics, Ovaioza would have won several gold medals for Nigeria in that category. She was a master at it.

Ovaioza’s Post

She trapped many Nigerians in her game of hypocrisy by constantly preaching about love, kindness and other moral values.

On March 6, Ovaioza said she was a fan of love and kindness.

“I am very big on love, loyalty, trust, and kindness,” she said in one of her posts.

Prior to that, she had preached about kindness, encouraging her fans to always help one another.

“Show kindness to those who are kind and be generous to those who are generous so that we can reduce the number of ingrates who go about saying, ‘They stopped helping because I thought I would die, but God raised someone else,’” she said.

Her teeming fans would always embrace all she preached, never suspecting they were being deceived.

Her messages on kindness were skewed to make Nigerians fall for her scam.

“Being unkind has nothing to do with a refusal to give,” she said on one of her posts in February.

A STRONG WOMAN

Like most internet celebrities would do to their fans, Ovaioza was always very quick to tell her fans about her strength. She would, from time to time, let her audience in on her entrepreneurial journey. However, in reality, the intention was to lure them into an already-set trap.

“In awe of my strength in pulling through the frustration that comes with running a business,” she once said after returning to her base from a lengthy road journey.

The question is, “Do strong people defraud unsuspecting investors?”

SHE COERCES PEOPLE TO DO BUSINESS WITH HER

Ovaioza knew from the onset that Nigerians do not find it easy to believe things posted on social media platforms, so she would constantly guilt trip her followers by saying ‘Misery loves company’.

Another Post From Ovaioza

She won her investors’ trust with her charm.

She also hit them hard when the trust had become ‘full blown’.

“Only a terrible person waits to hear dreadful stories about a business or someone to validate their hustle,” she subtly said on March 2, while coercing people into doing business with her.

A MOTIVATIONAL THOUGHT LEADER

“I told you before and I will told you again [sic], take praises and critics to heart at your own risk,” she posted on December 17, 2021.

“Just do your thing as long as you are not hurting anyone.”

Ovaioza’s Post on March 2

Ovaioza littered her Facebook timeline with many self-help and motivational quotes. She was also an expert at mingling entertaining stories with platitudes to fleece her audience. 

She also frequently advised her audience to apply critical thinking in their daily lives. 

A PHILANTHROPIST AND GOSPEL ARTIST

In 2017, Ovaioza released a gospel song titled ‘Holy Are You Lord’ under the stage name ‘Ovai4Jesus’.

Five years later, one can no longer say whether her actions reflect her stage name any longer.

Many of her followers said Ovaioza started out on Facebook as a philanthropist. Some Twitter users have also described her as a giveaway merchant. This is because she had given out cars to people in the past.

However, this performative philanthropy did not last long, as people later realised it was a part of her strategy to draw attention to herself.

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