Bar council president impostor nabbed

33-year-old Roland Wacha Ndansah, Senior Discipline Master of Government Technical High School, GTHS, Njinikom, Boyo Division of the Northwest Region, is currently behind bars at the Bamenda Judicial Police for impersonating Barrister Francis Sama, Bar Council President.

Ndansah has been dubbing and collecting huge sums of money from gullible Cameroonians, seeking admission into the Bar and other professional exams.

Narrating the story to The Post on Tuesday, November 25, the Commissioner of the Judicial Police Old Town, Ernest Ade Ndifor, said “when the State Counsel of Mezam, forwarded a complaint to me that there was a fraudster duping people and promising them that he can buy positions for them in official examinations, I dispatched some policemen to investigate the matter and that was how Ndansah was caught,” Commissioner Ndifor stated.

The Police Commissioner presented to the press, one of such forged documents which the fraudster used in collecting huge sums of money from his victims, with the letter head of the Bar Council President, including his official stamps, which he had apparently fabricated to ease his jobs. In one of such documents titled “Acknowledgement letter/Deed, to whom it may concern,” Ndansah, writes that he (Wacha) on behalf of the Sama Chambers, Department of Documentation Services Yaounde, acknowledged having received from Mr. Nixon Gwain Mbah, holder of Cameroonian National Identity Card no. 1085976866 issued on 16/06/2008…… residing in Bamenda Town, the sum of FCFA 450,000, which will be used for the establishment of an office file comprising the following documents; certificate of nationality, certified copy of birth certificate, GCE O/L, GCE A/L, First Decree and certified copy of National Identity Card.

He goes further to state that if the candidate fails to succeed, the money shall be refunded or carried forward to another public exam of the same magnitude in future. The forged documents carry Barrister Sama’s signature, ID Card Number and claiming Sama to be a Sheriff-Bailiff as well.

In order to keep the public aware of such a hoaxer, the Bar Council President issued a disclaimer which read; “The President of the Cameroon Bar Association, Batonnier Francis Sama informs the general public that a certain impostor, Roland Wacha Ndansah, Senior Discipline Master of GTHS Njinikom, has been fraudulently collecting huge sums of money from several persons in the name of Lawyer Sama to assist them succeed in National Professional Examination and recruitments.

This scammer and impostor, has been finally arrested and is currently assisting the Judicial Police Bamenda in their investigations based on a complaint from the Batonnier.”

“Any person who has paid any sum of money to Mr. Roland Wacha in the belief that he was dealing with Barrister Sama, should immediately contact Batonnier Francis Sama so that the police can assist them to recover their money so unjustly collected.” Read the disclaimer.

Barrister Sama, said Ndansah has also succeeded in using the telephone numbers of another Lawyer, Barrister Roland Vega in duping people. Re-iterating that the Bar Council Exams that admitted 1,453 as Pupil advocates was void of any fraud, Sama said no leakages were registered anywhere. That is why the Minister of Justice published the results after serious scrutiny.

“That is why I described the young man who failed the exams and decided to drag the Bar Association to Court as a big joke. It will interest him to know that his scripts will be presented before him when the time of reckoning comes.”

Talking to the press at the Judicial Police, the fraudster Roland Wacha Ndansah, admitted that he has been in the scamming business since 2012, and has reimbursed some of his victims. He kept pleading with Barrister Sama to forgive him.

“I have handed to police three names of those I collected money to assist them pass professional exams.” Ndansah, who hails from Bum Subdivision, confessed that he has been scamming his tribesmen for a long time now.