A Ghanaian fraudster, one Thomas Abanga, pretending to be an international investor fled Freetown in September 2024, soon after his shell company was paid $60,000 to supply maize and soya beans for a Sierra Leonean owned poultry feed production organisation.
In 2024, Mr Abanga touted himself as an international commercial farmer, looking to invest in the agricultural sector in Sierra Leone. He claimed that his company, Abanga Group and Firms, was a leading producer of maize not only in Ghana, his home country , but also in Namibia, Southern Africa. He feigned that he was interested in going into large scale rice and maize production in Sierra Leone.
Abanga cunningly collected $60,000 to supply maize and soya beans to a reputable poultry feed producing company in Sierra Leone and flew back to Ghana, promising to deliver the order in November 2024.
After repeated requests for a refund, as he could not deliver the order, the conman stopped answering his calls and went underground.
Another shocking revelation has now also come to light that Mr Abanga fled the shores of Freetown leaving a whopping $16,000 bill at the Sierra Palms Hotel where he had stayed for several weeks whilst in Sierra Leone.
As a ruse for his lies to being an investor , Abanga had taken storage space in Kobia, Mambolo Chiefdom, in June 2024, boasting that he was going to cultivate 3,000 ha in the 2025 cropping season. He brought in a few secondhand machinery and implements from Ghana in 2024 and recruited a couple of locals to keep guard. He then simply vanished and stopped paying the poor guards after a couple of months. Unsurprisingly, not even 1ha of the promised 3000ha has been tilled. This deceitful conduct has left the Kobia people disappointed, as they were looking forward to the potential job opportunities Abanga had falsely promised.
The public is hereby warned to be aware of this nefarious conman [picture and passport details below] and encouraged to report any sighting of him to the nearest police station..
