The Nigeria police force has filed a three-count fraud related charge against the former governor of Imo state, Ikedi Ohakim.
The charge marked CR/993/2020 and dated September 23, 2020, was filed before a federal capital territory (FCT) high court in Abuja.
The authorities accused the former governor of using the name of Babatunde Raji Fashola, minister of works and housing, to defraud unsuspecting victims.
Ohakim was also alleged to have given false information against a certain Chinyere Lilian 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.”
The court is expected to fix a date for hearing on the matter.
Ikedi Ohakim was the governor of Imo state between 2007 and 2011. His attempt at winning a second term was thwarted by the electorates who voted Rochas Okorocha in his stead in 2011.
