General Interest
Ex-Imo Gov. Ohakim In Trouble For ‘Using Fashola’s Name To Commit Fraud’
Ex-Imo Gov. Ohakim has been slammed with 3-Count Charge by the police.
CityNews Nigeria reports that the Nigerian Police have filed a three-count criminal charge against a former governor of Imo state Ikedi Ohakim for alleged fraud.
Ohakim who was governor of Imo State from 2007 to 2011 would be tried in a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja.
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The police are accusing him of using the name of the Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola to defraud unsuspecting victims.
In the charge marked CR/993/2020 and dated September 23, the ex-governor is also alleged to have given false information against a woman named Chinyere Amuchienwa.
The charge reads: “That you Ikedi Ohakim, on or about the 23rd day of May 2019 at Asokoro, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did unlawfully gave false information against one Chinyere Amuchienwa, that she threatened you with gun knowing it to be false and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 140 of the Penal Code Law of the Northern Nigeria, 1968.
“That you Ikedi Ohakim, on or about the 23rd day of May, 2019, at Asokoro, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did unlawfully gave false information against one Chinyere Amuchienwa, that you have a plot of land for sale at Lagos state, knowing it to be false and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 140 of the Penal Code Law of the Northern Nigeria, 1968.
“That you Ikedi Ohakim on or about the 23rd day of May 2019 at Asokoro, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did unlawfully used derogatory the name of Raji Fashola as the owner of the purported land situated at Ikeja, Lagos state and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 140 of the Penal Code Law of the Northern Nigeria, 1968.”
A date is yet to be fixed for his arraignment.
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