KAMPALA — Michael Ayeranga passed off to his victims as a man with a big heart.
This is because he always showed interest in helping those seeking assistance from the Office of the President or State House.
To prove that he was authentic, he often brandished an ID to his unsuspecting victims that he was a presidential advisor.
However, all this turned out to be false because according to State House, he has never been their employee nor a presidential adviser but only created a fake impression that he does so that he gets a platform to defraud people. The excruciating story was broken by main stream media’s Sunday Monitor at the weekend.
According to State House officials, Ayeranga is a notorious scammer who had made a career out of extorting money from people by promising to get for them government business deals and connections.
Sources further confirm that he only managed to get away with the crime for so long because he skilfully managed to create a false impression in public that he is indeed a genuine staff of the State House by using photoshopped images of him standing next to some of the top leaders in the country, which he would post on social media or make them his profile pictures.
Sources further confirmed that he would use part of the money extorted from his victims to buy luxury cars such as SUVs and go for vacation in luxury places from where he would take videos and begin to share them online.
This was with the sole purpose of increasing confidence in his victims that he is a millionaire living his dreams.
According to many of his victims, Ayeranga is a friendly, confident and shrewd man who obtains money from his victims, telling them that he is taking it to government officials in top leadership positions or individuals he knows are close to the President.
He often tells the victims that the payment is for facilitating him to push through the meetings
According to the sources, his luck ran out when he obtained huge sums of money from investors for whom he had promised to get a government deal. When it became obvious that he had conned them, victims reported the matter with evidence to the President, who ordered his immediate arrest.
After being arrested, hundreds of victims he has reportedly scammed overtime, who include foreign investors, bishops, civil servants, construction companies and unemployed young girls, have come out to register their painful testimonies about how he lied and tricked them into getting money from them all which will be used to pin him in court soon.
It has also been discovered that without their knowledge and consent, Ayeranga used the names of over 10 top government officials and others in the private sector, who are close to the President to extort money from his victims and all these are ready to testify against him.
Sources further say that those investigating for his crimes aren’t bothered at all by the obvious stage-managed protests by some of his few friends from Bunyoro, demanding his unconditional release.
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