Italian Kidnap Syndicate Terrorizing Nigeria Arrested

A 50-year-old Italian kidnap syndicate, Blessing Fernando, for abducting an victim in Delta State.

Fernando was arrested at Ogbe-Isoko community when he went to collect an additional ransom of N50,000 from the victim’s relatives, having collected N250,000 initially.

Prior to his arrest, the suspect was residing at Evowe Quarters of Ozoro in Isoko North Local Government Area.

The state Commissioner of Police, Zanna Ibrahim, who paraded him alongside 22 suspected kidnappers and three armed at the command headquarters in Asaba yesterday, said the kidnapping syndicate had terrorised Ozoro and its environs for years.

“He was arrested at a scene where he came to collect ransom of additional sum of N50,000 from the victim’s relatives having robbed the victim the sum of N250,000. 

Effort to arrest other fleeing gang members is on course as case will be charged to court soon,” the commissioner said.

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On interrogation, the suspect, who confessed to be a member of the kidnapping syndicate, said he was co-opted under duress after he was duped of N600,000.

He said: “They forced me to become their member, if I must get back my money. My desperation to recover my money from them has landed me in this mess. They told me to go and wait at the scene where I was arrested for somebody who will bring some money from which they will offset what they had defrauded me. ”

Fernando said his mother hailed from Isoko ethnic group in Delta State while his father was an Italian.

Firm Returns N500m Stolen By A Governor To EFCC As Reps Member On The Run Over Another $3m Stolen From Paris Club Refund

A mortgage firm has returned to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the N500 million said to be part of the Paris Club refund kept with it by a governor.

The EFCC is probing the London-Paris Club refund following allegations that some governors are misapplying the cash.

The Federal Government agreed to the refund to enable the governors to pay workers’ salaries and pensions.

Besides, the EFCC has gone to a Federal High Court in Abuja to seek the forfeiture of $3million said to be held for another governor by three persons and two companies.

The agency has placed a no debit order on the three accounts traced to the five suspects, including a member of the House of Representatives, who has gone underground to avoid arrest.

Investigation by our correspondent revealed that officials of the mortgage firm also made a statement confirming that the governor owns the N500million.

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A top source, who spoke in confidence with our correspondent, said: “When EFCC detectives traced the governor’s loot of N500million from the London-Paris Club refund to the account of the mortgage company, the firm wasted no time in disclosing the source.

“The mortgage firm has surrendered the cash to us; we have it in our custody.  And on Monday (yesterday), we filed an application before the court for an interim forfeiture of the N500million in order to legalise its custody.

“The purported owner of the cash has a two-week deadline to come forward to claim it or have it forfeited permanently to the Federal Government.”

Responding to a question, the source said all those connected with the cash, including some consultancy firms had been named in court.

The identities of the governor, the companies involved and his proxies, the source added, would be unveiled when the matter comes up in court.

The governor, he said, has long standing mortgage collaboration with the firm where the N500million was wired.

On the $3million linked to another governor, the EFCC provided the list of those involved including the names of the two companies, three persons, and the three accounts used.

Two of the three persons are siblings, including a member of the House of Representatives whose whereabouts was unknown at press time last night.

The lawmaker was, in the EFCC profile, described as a former commissioner.

Another source added: “Again, we have asked the court to grant our prayer for the Interim Forfeiture of the $3million. We also attached the list of three banks, three accounts, two companies and three other suspects.

“As I am talking to you, the EFCC has placed a No Debit Order on the three accounts associated with the $3million which was diverted from the London-Paris Club to build a 100-room hotel for another serving governor. One of the accounts is in a bank noted for domiciliary account business. The two others have been named in some suspicious transactions during the immediate past administration.”

Detectives, the source said,  suspected that the $3million was part-payment for the construction of the hotel.

On the extent of investigation of the cash, he said: “One of those questioned over the $3million has actually refunded $500,000.

“The EFCC team really did a wonderful job in tracking the cash. In fact, a notable project firm, which has had partnership with the governor in the past, was implicated in the $3million deal.

“We have sought for the seizure of the $3million and the N500million in line with Sections 28 and 34 of the EFCC (Establishment Act) 2004 and Section 13(1) of the Federal High Court Act, 2004.

The Presidency has so far released about N1. 266.44trillion to the 36 states in the past one year including N713.70billion special intervention funds to states.

Following protest by states against over deductions for external debt service between 1995 and 2002, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the release of N516.38billion (first tranche) to the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as refunds pending reconciliation of records.

Each state was entitled to a cap of N14.5 billion being 25% of the amounts claimed.

Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun said the payment of the claims would enable states to offset outstanding salaries and pension which had been “causing considerable hardship.”

The governors sought for the loan refunds to states and local governments at a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on May 24, last year.

But the alleged deduction of about N19billion and $86million, meant for payment of consultants and legal advisers, by some governors is under investigation by EFCC.

Following controversy over the refunds in some states, the Federal Ministry of Finance, through its Director of Information, Salisu Dambatta, had penultimate Friday released the details of the N516.38billion to Nigerians.

The top earners are Rivers, N34.92b;  Delta, N27.6b; Akwa Ibom, N25.98b; Bayelsa, N24.89b; Kano, N21.7b; Lagos, N16.74b; Katsina, N16.4b; Kaduna, N15.44b;  Borno, N14.68b;  Jigawa, N14.2b; Imo, N14.01b;  Niger, N14.42b;  Bauchi, N13.75b;  Sokoto, N12.88b and Osun, N12.62b.

Others are Cross River N12.15b;  Anambra, N12.24b;  Edo, N12.18b;  Kebbi, N11.95b;  Kogi, N11.05b; Abia, N11.43b;  Ogun, N11.47b;  Plateau, N11.28b;  Yobe, N10.82b; Zamfara, N10.88b;  Ebonyi, N9.01b;  Ekiti, N9.54b;  Enugu, N10.7b;  Gombe, N8.95b;  Nasarawa, N9.1b;  Oyo, N13.31b;  Kwara, N10.24b; Adamawa, N10.25b; Benue, N13.7b; , Ondo, N14.01b;  Taraba, N9.32b; and  FCT, N1.36b.

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I Don't Know My Husband Is This Rich, Sell His Properties To Refund Victim - Evans Wife Broke Down In Tears, Begs For Forgiveness

Mrs Uchenna Precious Onwuamadike, the of the arrested notorious kidnap kingpin, Chikwudubem Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans has claimed she neither knew husband was a criminal nor so rich to acquire things claimed belonged to him.

Precious in an interview with the Vanguard news urged the Nigerian Government to sell off her husband properties and share the proceed among the victims

Excerpted from the interview, Precious said"

"I didn’t know he was into crime …He took part in our daily prayers and always prayed Psalm 23 …His wealth should be sold off and given to his victims …I didn’t know he was this rich, the highest he gave to me was N200,000 …Please, forgive him for the sake of myself and the children"

See The Story Of Pretty Evans’ Wife, Uchenna As Published By Vanguard Newspaper

Evans wife, Uchenna and kids

My name is Uchenna Precious Onwuamadike, the wife of the Chikwudubem Onwuamadike who you call Evans. I am 31 years old. I got married to Evans at the age of 17 at Oraifite, Anambra state in 2004.

He met me while I was coming back from lesson as a student of All Saints Secondary School, Oraifite and I was in class 6 going to take my West African Examination. After we met, I agreed to go with him because of my poor background. He told me his father married three wives when he was six years old and threw his mother out of his house.

He said that one of the wives influenced his father to drive them out of his house also and they were forced to stay with outsiders. Evans was taken to his grandmother who trained him. He told me his father accused the mother of being adulterous before driving her out of his house. Our marriage is blessed with five children.

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Our first issue is 12 years plus and her name us Udochukwu. After we got married, he said I should stay with his mother in his village at Akanmiri, Umudim, Nnewi to teach me how to be a good housewife. I was there for three years before he took me to Lagos.

We were living at Satellite town in 2006 and after one year, he relocated us back to the village because he could not pay house rent. While in the village, he normally came to see us. We spent three years in the village and relocated to Ghana.

On our way to Ghana, we passed through Lagos and stayed at Benny Hotels in Festac where we spent two days before travelling to Ghana. He spent a month with us in Ghana before coming back to Lagos.

I was pregnant with our fourth child in 2010 when he left for Nigeria to come back in two months time. After I gave birth, he came back four months later and was able to clear the accumulated bills we kept for him because I borrowed money from friends to clear hospital bill. When he came back, he complained bitterly that things were rough for him in Nigeria and that customs seized his goods. I was not aware that he was into kidnapping and all the criminal acts he is being associated with now.

All I know about his business is that he was into haulage, buying engine and spare parts for trucks and imports exhaust pipes. That was what he told me. The reason he kept me in Ghana was because he said our children should get quality education.

I have spent six years here and after I stopped hearing from him, I called and complained bitterly but he said I should stay for some time. I then called his friend, Okechukwu, who now lives in China. He told me that he has not been seeing him and that he spends most of his time with a girlfriend in Festac.

When I called him to complain, he was angry with me and warned that I should stop listening to gossip. He said that If I should return, I should go to his younger brother’s house in Lagos until he is ready to get accommodation for us.

The brother was formally living in Lagos but he is in Brazil now. So, when it was impossible to pay my children’s school fees, I packed my bags and baggage and came back to Lagos with our children. We stayed at his brother’s house at Agric, close to Trade Fair until he took us to a house in Magodo where he claimed he owed rent pending the completion of his own house there.

We have spent just one year in that house in Magodo. I have no idea of the type of business he was into but he told me that his friends overseas used to buy phones and jewelry for him.

While in Lagos, I was idle and I pressured him to find something for me to do and he promised to do that.

Several times, I asked him to take me to his office but he said they move from place to place to offload goods in haulage business and share profits. I can’t remember having any visitor in our house.

It is only the agent called Sunny that helped us to pack into our house that I know. At times, artisans come to do one repair or the other, that’s all. I don’t know any of his friends and if we were invited to parties, he would not allow us to attend.

He told me that he has no friends and that he hates associating with people. I was always indoors because he warned me to beware of Lagos women that they are wayward. I was staying indoors and it was only when I was sick that he took me to a hospital in Ikeja. I always have BP and it makes weak.

We went back to Ghana on the 6th of this month and he promised to join us in no distant time. On the 9th, I called him to know when he would be coming and even the youngest of our children was crying, begging him to come as soon as possible and he promised to come. In the afternoon, I called but he was not picking.

Shock, Drama As Popular Church Pastor 'Oyedepo' Hires Thugs To Prevent Dead Wife's Burial in Kwara ...See Photo

It was a bizarre drama over the weekend when an Abuja- based cleric, Jacob Oyedepo, invited ‘bouncers’ to disperse relatives and friends who had gathered to bury his wife on a property the deceased was said to have developed before death came calling.

According to some sources,  Oyedepo works with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) although there were those who expressed doubt about his real role as a Pastor in the church. The deceased, Mrs. Christiana Adetola Oyedepo (nee Abu) died on May 2, 2017 after a sickness that was said to have lasted for about three months. She was aged 45 years.

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The incident, which took place at Oke-Andi area of Ilorin, Kwara State, sent tongues wagging as to why a cleric would take such a step over a woman that was married to him for 17 years and had four kids before she died. There were speculation that the cleric had attempted to sell the uncompleted property and was concerned that burying the woman on the site would discourage prospective buyers from the property.

Family members claimed that the deceased had embarked on the project with loans obtained from a cooperative society and was still servicing the loan when she died.

The deceased was said to have been a teacher in one of the public schools in the state and had developed the property on her own. Family sources claimed that their marriage had been rocked by allegations of maltreatment allegedly by the cleric but that the deceased had kept it under wrap to prevent public ridicule.

A family source said the two had met in church and started their relationship there.

Like Saraki, Dino Melaye Also In CCB TROUBLE; Under Fresh Probe Over Foreign Bank Account

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has disclosed that it has opened an investigation into an allegation that Senator Dino Melaye, who represents Kogi West constituency in the National Assembly, maintains a foreign bank account in violation of Nigerian law.

An anti-corruption organization, Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), had in a recent petition urged the CCB to investigate Mr. Melaye for a number of alleged crimes, including the operation of a foreign bank account.

In a response addressed to CSNAC and obtained by SaharaReporters, the Code of Conduct Bureau thanked the activist group for its “initiative to forward the aforementioned petition for investigations.”

The CCB’s letter, which was signed on behalf of the bureau’s chairman by Awwal Usman Yakasai, a director, also disclosed, “the Bureau is currently investigating the allegations and awaiting response on correspondences with relevant authorities that may provide further and possible evidence on the allegations and enable further necessary action on the matter.”

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Mr. Melaye, who has a reputation as one of Nigeria’s most scandal-dogged senators, is also facing growing public condemnation after SaharaReporters released an audiotape in which he is heard discussing a monetary gift and other favors with Justice Akoh Ikpeme, a female judge who presided over an electoral petition against the senator. A transcript of the taped conversation revealed that the judge asked Senator Melaye to provide any funds to her in US dollars.

In response to the tape, CSNAC also urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate Mr. Melaye for his alleged bribe to Justice Ikpeme in 2015. The judge ultimately dismissed the electoral challenge to Mr. Melaye’s election.

In a petition signed by its chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, CSNAC urged the EFCC to constitute a team of forensic experts and investigators charged with investigating the audiotape and possibly prosecuting the senator and Justice Ikpeme.

SENATOR DINO MELAYE ILLEGAl BANK ACCOUNT

Source: Sahara Reporters

Again, EFCC Ransacks Osborne Tower Where Misery $50m Found; You'll Be Shocked; See List of 19 Prominent Nigerians Living There

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Tuesday, made a thorough ransack on virtually all the flats the Ikoyi Osborne Tower house, News Punch has learned reliably

during the ransack, the apartments of the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi; and a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, as part of investigations into the  $43.4m, £27,000 and N23m (N13bn) found at a flat in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, last week, Punch Newspaper reports this morning.

Other prominent persons, living in the building, include a former Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (Retail), Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue; and media mogul and founder of Ebony Life Television, Mo Abudu.

Sources within the EFCC told one of our correspondents that all the flats were searched including the unoccupied ones.

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The commission had uncovered the N13bn in flat 7B of the building on Wednesday last week.

Detectives were, however, of the opinion that there might be more money concealed in other flats including three unoccupied apartments.

According to the apartment ownership list obtained by Sahara Reporters, other owners include; 

1. A former Guaranty Trust Bank chairman, Fola Adeola, who owns Apartment 1A, 
2. Former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi and his wife, who own Apartment 1B.
3. 2A - Ahmed Kida 
4. 2B - Ahmed Kida but apartment occupied by Esther Ogbue (a recently retired MD of NNPC)
5. 3A - Kayode Sonaike
6. 3B - Sterling Assets
7. 4A and 4B - Leo Stan Ekeh
8. 5A - Sterling Bank
9. 5B - Damian Dodo, SAN
10. 6A - Mo Abudu
11. 6B - Career Terminal and Logistics Ltd.
12. 7A - Mr. and Mrs. Edo-Osagie (Daughter of PDP Chieftain Anthony Anenih and her husband)
13. 7B - Chobe Ventures Limited (Controlled by Folashade Oke, wife of DG, NIA) apartment where $50m was found by EFCC)
14. 8A - Chikki Foods
15. 8B - Mr. Balogun
16. 9A - Damian Dodo, SAN
17. 9B - Alhaji Tukur
18. 10 A & B - Ahmed Muazu
19. 11 A & B - Ahmed Muazu.

$50m Lagos Misery Money: CBN Faults NIA Claim In Shocking Fresh Revelation

The Central Bank of Nigeria has faulted claim by the National Intelligence Agency, NIA that the seized N13bn ($43.4m, N23m and £27,000) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos was gotten directly from the apex Bank, emerging report according to Premium Times suggest

The CBN, When contacted, according to Premium Times said it was not sure, as at Saturday, that the recovered billions, in mint fresh notes, moved directly from the bank to the NIA.

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The security agency had claimed that it received the funds directly from the CBN.

But when contacted by PREMIUM TIMES to clarify its role in the disbursement of the funds, the CBN spokesperson, Isaac Okorafor, said, “It is true the Central Bank of Nigeria issues mint fresh notes, but it is only to banks.

“After that (issuance to banks) CBN does not know which of their customers they (the banks) give those notes to and for what purpose.

“I cannot say if the notes the NIA is claiming came from the CBN. So, I will not be able to answer questions on it for now, except I receive a specific request.”

Patience Jonathan Actually Withdrew Cash From Her Unblocked Account ...See Photo

Contrary to media report that Patience Jonathan was blocked from making withdrawal from her unfrozen account at the Skye Bank in Abuja, the former First Lady actually withdrew the sum of $100,000

According to NAN, Patience Jonathan yesterday waited for hours at a bank in Abuja until she was allowed to withdraw money from a domiciliary account.

A Lagos court blocked the account in December on the request of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the EFCC, on suspicion the money it holds - $5.9 million – was proceed of crime.

However, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun Thursday lifted the temporary forfeiture order as a result of which the former first lady showed up at the Skye Bank PLC, Maitama, Abuja where she operates the account.

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She demanded to withdrawal “huge amount of money,” said a source who wouldn’t want to be named.

However, the source said she was told by the bank officials that such amount was not available at the branch.

The former first lady insisted on being paid or else she would not leave the bank, the source said.

Another source, however, said she stayed for too long in the bank because  she was confronted with fresh court documents demanding a stay of execution.

A report by the News Agency of Nigeria yesterday said the EFCC had procured a stay-of-execution of the judgement and also simultaneously filed an appeal.

Unconfirmed reports said that she wanted to withdraw as much as $1 million on Friday, but was given $100,000 by the bank.

She returned at 10:00 a.m. yesterday and had a closed-door meeting with an Executive Director of the bank.

She finally left the bank at 4:05 p.m. but declined to speak to newsmen who sought to know why she was there.

One of her aides, who declined to disclose his name, told newsmen that “everything was okay”.

Speaking with Daily Trust, Mrs Jonathan’s solicitor, Charles Ogboli, declined to give details of the withdrawal but confirmed that the bank has fully complied with the order of the court. 

“We visited the bank as the order of court was given and the order of the court has been obeyed to the letter,” he said.

On why it took several hours to conclude the transaction, the lawyer said there was no hiccups whatsoever, describing it as “normal protocol of transaction.”

It was gathered that the former First Lady arrived the bank around 10 am in the morning in company of several aides and mobile security operatives. and departed at closing time by 4pm. 

Attempts by reporters to get Mrs Jonathan’s view, was frustrated by the security operatives, who smashed an expensive camera belonging to a Daily Trust photo journalist, Ikechukwu Ibeh.