Fake BDC dealers dupe Mai Doya in Glo-sponsored TV drama

Imeh Bishop

Mai Doya (Funky Mallam), one of the regular characters in the Globacom-sponsored TV Drama series, Professor Johnbull, takes the centre stage in the new episode of the situation comedy as he falls victims to the activities of fake bureau de change operators.

This is just as the series draws public attention to the antics of dubious foreign currency dealers and warns the public on how to avoid falling victim to them.

In the episode, titled Money Changers, Mai Doya, who abandons his yam selling business for a brief foray into the business of money changing in company of Flash (Stephen Odimgbe), another regular of the comedy series, pays for his gullibility as he is fleeced off the seven thousand US dollars given to him by Etuk (Imeh Bishop) and Etuk's sister (Juliet Ibrahim) before providence intervenes on his behalf and the swindlers are arrested.

Money Changers will be aired this Tuesday at 8.30.p.m on NTA Network, NTA International on DSTV Channel 251 and NTA on StarTimes, with a repeat broadcast on Friday also at 8.30 p.m. on the same channels.

Prompted by Flash, whose main mission is to make a quick profit from the money given to them to change, Mai Doya abandons the agreed registered money changers to patronise street hawkers, who after offering an obviously high exchange rate for the foreign currency, swapped the original with fake and then dropped the exchange rate to an abysmally ridiculous low rate.

Expectedly, Mai Doya rejects the low rate and instead of giving him the genuine currency notes, the swindlers gave him the fake ones. The secret is blown open when Mai Doya attempts to change the dollars at a registered bureau de change, where the operator calls in the police on sighting the fake currency.

Another highlight of Money Changers is the cameo casting of the Ghanaian actress, Juliet Ibrahim. She plays the role of the USA-based sister of the hotelier, Etuk (Imeh Bishop), who has been encouraging her to marry Professor Johnbull (Kanayo O. Kanayo) in order for the two "to born dictionary", a reference to the scholar's penchant for high sounding  words.