Janet Balogun (pseudonym), a retired widow, and her daughter invested N6,180,000 with Anyanso Mma’s TheMap, a private investment company, in 2020. Since then, he has been evasive and only shows up when investors threaten to file a lawsuit against him.
Balogun told FIJ that she joined TheMap in August, 2020.
She invested in the scheme with a total of N5,680,000 while her daughter invested N500,000.
Balogun invested the N5.6 million across three different investment schemes: Customer Relationship Management Independent Plan (CRMI), Location Monetisation and Delivery Bike Business Corporate Plan.
For CRMI, Balogun said she invested N4 million. She put N900,000 into Location Monetisation and N780,000 into Delivery Bike Business. Her daughter also pumped N500,000 into CRMI.
One of Balogun’s Investment Invoices.
“For Location Monetisation, I was to be paid N75,000 weekly for six months. I received the return on investment (ROI) between September 26 and October 26, 2020, at N75,000 per week, totalling N450,000,” Balogun explained.
“For Delivery Bike Business Corporate Plan, I was supposed to get N30,000 per week as ROI for six months, but I only received N30,000 for two weeks, which was N60,000
“On CRMI, no ROI was paid before the business closed.”
Anyanso Mma
After many attempts to recover their funds, other investors counted their losses and moved on.
“We have a group on Telegram where Anyanso himself monitors our discussion, but it seems most of them have moved on. It’s because I’m a widow and I need the money to help my son with it,” Balogun told FIJ.
MMA HAS MORE BLOOD ON HIS HANDS
In 2021, FIJ did a comprehensive report on how Mma absconded with investors’ money running to the tune of N7 billion.
In the report, FIJ stated that TheMap started in 2018, and things were going well for investors until 2020 when CRMI was introduced.
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From FIJ’s initial report and what Balogun said, Mma was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). However, to the dismay of Balogun and many other victims, Mma was released after three weeks.
Balogun said that Mma resurfaced in February 2024.
“We took him to the EFCC and they released him after a while,” Balogun said.
“This was because we (the investors) got the services of a lawyer. Any time he hears we are taking him to court, he will make efforts to show that there is validation and all sorts.
“This year, he paid the sum of N450,000 to me. That one is not ROI. He said it is a refund on the investments that we made.
“He paid some others, but I don’t know the amount.”
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FIJ noticed that Mma was active on Facebook after the EFCC released him in 2021. All attempts to reach TheMap were futile as they did not responded to FIJ’s texts.
On Tuesday, FIJ noticed that Mma’s Facebook account was still active. Despite the active, he did not respond to FIJ’s texts.
When FIJ called the EFCC on Tuesday to ask what they discovered about Mma and why he was released, the commission responded that it did not know about the case.
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