Ghanaian spoken word artiste Mutombo has narrated how a lady who was in Ghana during the Yuletide season for the ‘Year of Return’ nearly swindled him.
According to him, he picked the lady known as Jigi from the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) after she told him her friends in Ghana have ignored her and not responding to her texts.
The photographer also revealed how he paid for the Jigi‘s medications, food, hotel, etc. because the latter said she had no Ghana Cedis on her.
Following attempts to make away with the money spent, the poet, together with two (2) friends devised a plan to get his money back; and it worked perfectly.
This was made known in a series of tweets posted on social media microblog Twitter on Monday, January 6, 2020.
Read the tweets below:
One day I will tell u all a story of how a Year of Return member tried to run away with my money. But this is Accra, my city! I will never lose. Also when you have a clean/good heart…nothing will get you down! I have not been myself for days and it’s not because of the money…
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 5, 2020
The money is small but the manner in which this member orchestrated stuff was so childish and yawa. We have a new film to shoot for this year! I think I have my first short film!! 🎬
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 5, 2020
I picked this person that I didn’t really know from the airport because she said her friends in Ghana have ditched her and not responding to her text, etc. We got to my car and she went on IG story and told the whole world that they should see her Uber!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
From that moment, that was it for me! But because I have sense, I didn’t ditch her or drive off! I ensured that she was safe. Got her food and everything that she wanted since she didn’t have cedis, then you decide to block me and escape with my money! In this Accraaaaaa? U lie!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
On Friday, I told myself that I would never be nice to anyone ever again! But I thought through it again, and was like nah, I can’t do this to myself because of a ‘stranger’. That will be a very big disservice.
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
I can’t count the number of times she said “i appreciate you. Thanks for the help. I will change some cedis and give you your money back the next day!” Chale human beings, we are not it!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Note! I don’t know this lady from anywhere, I found out her name when she arrived at Kotoka. I asked for her full name just in case and I also gave her my full name! She comes out, I take her bag and her first words to me was “you are the first tall Ghanaian I have seen.”
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
We walk to my car – that was when she took out her phone to make that IG story of my car being an Uber. I questioned her later and she gave me the weakest reason. She said it was a joke and mentioned something about America…wasn’t paying attention.
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
We get out of the airport, she tells me she needs anti-malarial pills, mosquito repellant and soap*. So I drive her to the pharmacy at airport shell. She tells me she’s not got cedis, and I use my money to buy and she said she will give me my money back the next day! I’m calm!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Total = 320ghc! And note, I have told everybody who knows about this – I was down for days not because of the money. Far from that! I was down and pissed for days because I was genuinely helping. One day, it would be me and I know how the world works.
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Before she flew, she told me she needed a SIM card so I stopped everything I was doing, went to join a long queue at MTN office in east legon, got her the SIM card and bought credit on!!! Now let me go back to story….
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
After pharmacy, she said she was hungry and needed a hotel. She asked for the price of Kempinski and I straight told her that “you can’t pay!” After going to 2 hotels, we finally get a hotel I pay 200ghc. Went to get her food, dropped her back in the hotel and I left!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
At the hotel reception, she repeated that “I appreciate u! You’ll get ur money tomorrow!” I was calm! So I left and that was it. Note: during our ride to get food she asked twice why I was quite. I was quite cos I had seen the IG story of my car being an Uber & got pissed more.
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
The next day I text her in the afternoon to check up on her if everything was cool and she told me she has left the hotel! Note all these convos are in my IG DMs. I got confused and pissed some more because:
1. It’s only right to tell me that you have finally connected….— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
…with your friends so you are leaving.
2. Of you have left, it means you have some cedis now so where is my money? No one is disrespecting me and keeping my money, no matter how small!
She told me to stop with the fake dramatics cos she told me she was going to leave!
When?— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
After a I asked her if she managed to change money and she said yes, then she went ahead to say -can i PayPal you? I got confused here! I told her I don’t have PayPal… pic.twitter.com/b3oZG5uKos
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
The next day I DMed her to ask for my cash and she told me something like she has decided to decline my request to pay me back the money because I decided to help/hospitable. God, then my stomach! My heart was just beating. I went red! I have attached two snapshots. pic.twitter.com/WnUYIJuyKR
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
After her last DM in that she blocked me!!
Guys no joke! I don’t believe in prayers but I went on my knees & prayed to Jesus Christ of Nazareth! I was shaking. My wife even asked if I was fine on that day. Knowing her, if I told her that I’ve been scammed she’ll tell me to let go— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Guys, I was blocked for being genuinely nice to someone! How?! Total block! See I have been stranded in Toronto before. I took the wrong train because I had no internet and traveled for like 3 hours on a train. Strangers help me get back home. What goes round should come round
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
…Ah chale I started asking myself so many questions. You know the sound that you hear in your ears when you are given a hard slap? Yes that sound! I was hearing that countinuously! Ei! Am I going mad? Yo! I pick my phone and I don’t know who I’m calling. Herh😂😂😂😂😂😂
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
I have been telling my son for years that “you have to be hard like your daddy!” But when this happened, I nearly went to kneel in front of him to cry saying. “Kwasi, your father is not hard after all! Don’t be hard like daddy okay, be hard like mummy!” 😭😭
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Now this is a person I exchanged a few words with so didn’t know much about her. So I started thinking of where to find her and stuff like that. Then I remembered that she told me some of the places she would be visiting. One of them was bloombar! Was going to start from here!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Then I remembered she sent me her WhatsApp number to call her when she got to Ghana so I sent her a voice note, then she blocked me on whatsapp too! Now I was prepared to go in!!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
I was going to go to the police but I’m like meh! What would they do? They’ll probably say “Bɛɛma kantinka sɛɛ na wa ma yɛ yi wo saa nu?” Now if you saw me at bloombar 3 times last week, I was looking for this girl with my friends and republic too! And even Luna!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
She had blocked me so I made a friend of mine check her IG every now and then to give me info what we realised was because she didn’t have internet, she always posted when she got WiFi so there was no was I would use her IG to get her! No way! So I devised a plan….
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
After 3-4 days of trying to get her, we devised a plan. I let me friend DM her with his style/design IG page to tell her he need someone like her for a video shoot and the payment was $100-120. She got excited and DMed back for more details. I still wasn’t sure if this would work
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Then she asked to talk to my friend on FaceTime for more details. I have my friends photo on my IG so I made him give this girl another friend’s number. Who acted as the production assistant. I trust the guy a lot! I have known him from kiddie times. They finally got on FaceTime
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
The only part that we didn’t cover was a treatment for the video! She asked and he told him that he would she it to her in a bit. I got on my laptop. Created this basaaaa treatment and he sent it to her! If you are a scammer, I’m from North Kaneshie, I don’t lose! pic.twitter.com/fURcFBmRgX
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
We sent her the treatment and she is down to do it. Venue for video shoot was Trade Fair! Still wasn’t sure she was going to make it! But my homies said I should be calm, this move will work! Fingers crossed!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
The time for the shoot was 2pm so I went to the Legon Botanical Gardens to chill with @dadaeli_ https://t.co/aVgj4dX0ee https://t.co/JDU6APCnHV
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Guys, on top of this with my thoughts running wild. Wondering if I was going to get her! Time was getting closer so we left to the Trade Fair as we got closer, I was getting angrier. Telling myself -I will never be nice to a stranger ever again! Never!!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Then she called saying she was 3 mins away! I laughed but I didn’t want to show my excitment. The guys I were with can tease you endlessly if you slack. So we get to trade fair, I drop my friends park at the gate and informed the security what we were up to.
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
The 2 security men got pissed when they heard the story and they were even willing to help us out. I wanted to call the police at this point but I was like let me chill first! Then I saw her walk toward my friends in the corner and I started my journey to meet the ‘scammer’
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
“Mutombo, relax, start breathing”, the little man in me kept on telling me! I got a call to come through and bam!
“We got ‘em!”
She said “oh hi!” I was like “where is my money!”
Then she took out 30ghc saying “take your money!” 😂😂😂😂
Aboa! pic.twitter.com/NhYMniAHR9— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
God! See, if I hadn’t got her! I would have been down, sick or hurt myself by now! So we started our journey to 3 ATMs….
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
Before I continue, shout to Nii Avenatti, my homie @dadaeli_ and @gambi_know without ur help, I wouldn’t have got her and u would have been the same people to laugh and tease me. You might want to be anon but I had to put this out, you have no idea what would have happened to me!
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
We got to first atm and after 2 mins says it wasn’t working. She was shaking so maybe she got her pin wrong or something. There is only one atm at tradefair so we had to walk out and find another atm. So on we went & there was no way I was going to put her in my car, we walked pic.twitter.com/u4pX9wXeid
— Mutombo [creator] (@MutomboDaPoet) January 6, 2020
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