Case File 3: Insider Advantage for Diaspora Land Deals

Here’s what the diaspora often misses: not every community is open to outsiders. You can wire money from London all day — but if the locals won’t sell to a stranger, you’ve lost before you start.

This client was in the UK. Just a WhatsApp contact, honestly. We had never met. But trust is transferable, and she trusted me to move as her shadow.

At the elders’ meeting, I didn’t show up as “buyer’s rep.” I showed up as family. Bought in her name, with my money, receipts in her name. The greedy ones tried to add fake extras, so I tipped them small and told them to keep the drama. They later threw in bonus land themselves. That’s politics, not coincidence.

The land was cleared, pegged, surveyed, documented. Six months later, she landed in Nigeria with her father-in-law. Papers in hand, she saw her land standing tall. She should never have trusted me because she’s Egba and I’m Ijebu—some think Ijebus are voodooists. I’m not, but my integrity cuts deeper than tribe or bloodlines.

The father-in-law performed his land protective rituals. I did mine — getting the deal done.

👉 CTA: Diaspora investors, here’s the truth: money is weak without structure. If you want land in safe hands, you need someone who can speak the language of both trust and power on ground.