Group calls for suspension of Lagos lawmaker Hon. Jude Idimogu for alleged theft of USD100, 000

Admin l Friday, November 20, 2020

LAGOS, Nigeria – A non-governmental organisation, Know Your Rights for Justice has called on the Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Hon. Mudasiru Obasa to  immediately suspend lawmaker representing Oshodi Isolo constituency II, Hon. Chukwuemeka Jude Idimogu  for his alleged involvement in the theft of USD 100,000 from his business associates.

The Lagos lawmaker is being interrogated by the Special Fraud Intelligence Unite of the Nigeria Police Force, SFIU, Alagbon over the role he played in the theft of USD 100,000 valued at N15, 960,000  belonging to one Kingsley Onyia in 2012 when the incident took place.

Providing details of the alleged fraud, based on a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by Hon. Jude,  Know Your Rights for Justice said Mr. Kingsley Onyia and Hon Chukwuemeka Jude Idomogu were business partner and close family friend and were into the business of  Bureau de change.

Hon. Idimogu was the CEO of JPM Dollars BDC Nigeria Limited and the 1^st Vice Chairman of Bureau de Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) South West Zone.

“I, Idimogu Jude Emeka, Chairman/CEO of JPM Dollars BDC Ltd and the 1^st Vice Chairman of Bureau de Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) South West Zone, hereby state as follows.

“On the 27^th day of January, 2012 about 10am in the morning (Friday) Mrs. Udoka Ezemanala called and asked if I could fund a bureau de change account for the purchase of $100,000 united state dollars from CBN. I said yes but told her that I could find a customer to fund the account, since I do not have money on my own to fund the account. I then requested her to forward the account detail to me which she did on my phone. On receiving the details of the account I requested her to give me the phone numbers of the true owner of the account in order for me to interact with him but she refused claiming that when she was funding my own BDC Account – JPM Dollars BDP, she never questioned my integrity.

“Based on the above, I decided that the good turn deserves another (since she once funded my BDC Account) about a year or 2 years ago, then there is nothing wrong for me to fund her account as well.

“I asked her who is the owner of the account, she told me the person  is an ex-CBN staff and  that the account name is POLYCHRIS BDC LTD with account no 2012024598, sort code 011150000 domiciled with First Bank Plc, Investment House Branch Marina, Lagos. { Polychris BDC Ltd is owned by Mrs. Udoka Ezenamala}.

“I then called my customer Mr. Nnamdi Kingsley whether he has money to fund an account and he said no that he has already discussed with some BDC account holders; that he has no money as at that time. That was about 11:30am Friday morning (27-01-2012). However, he later called me about 2:30pm and 3:21pm and asked me whether the account to be funded was still available and I told him yes.

“He now requested me to forward the account number to him which I did. He then funded Polychris BDC account by transferring the sum of N15,960,000 (Fifteen Million, Nine Hundred and Sixty Thousand, Ninety Naira Only) through Fidelity Bank Plc. Fund Transfer from no.kg 0019259 dated 27-01-2012 Naelochyke Investment Nig Ltd. The transferred amount hit Polychris BDC account 30^th January, 2012”, the group said.

But following his latest interrogation at SFIU, Alagbon, Hon. Jude said he never sent any BDC account number to Mr. Kingsley Onyia and that he was only assisting him as a friend not as a business partner.

But he seemed to have owned up when he was confronted with details of the deal by a more professional police officer at SFIU.

“On the 6^th of November, 2020 all parties met to argue their matter. When we confronted him with Annexure “A” “B” and “C” these overwhelmed documents, he resorted to begging Mr. Kingsley Onyia. Presently Mr. Onyia health condition is deteriorating daily and he is living in abject poverty. The facts is that Hon. Jude Idimogu thought that Mr. Onyia is dead.

“After the overwhelming evidences from Know Your Rights for Justice, Hon. Jude Idomogu was made to write another additional statements and detained for hours till he provide a surety before he was granted bail.

“The case came up on the 18^th of November, 2020. Hon. Jude Idimogu came to Anti Fraud Section Alagbon Ikoyi with a position that the police should charge him to court that he will not be the first legislator to be charge to court in Nigeria”.

Know Your Rights for Justice is further infuriated that Hon Jude Idimogu a prime suspect in the matter cajoled Mr. Kingsley Onyia to be the complainant based on his petition to the EFCC  to cover up his prosecution.

The group also alleged that Hon Jude Chukwuemeka Idimogu being the originator and manipulator of the crime wrote a petition to special fraud unit (sfu) Ikoyi, where he connived with SFIU Police officials to charge one Mr. Polycarp Nwosis to court to perfect their cover-up manipulation  and by not charging Hon. Idimogu who gave the BDC Account Number and Mrs. Udoka Ezenamala the Chairman/CEO of Polychris BDC Nigeria Limited.

Based on this manipulation the matter was discharged for lack of diligent prosecutions  following  activities  of Jude Idomogu who assumed the complainant in the suit whereas he is the prime suspect to cover up his alleged involvement.

Know Your Rights is appealing to well meaning philanthropist Nigerians to come to the financial assistance of Mr. Kingsley Onyia who was once financing the needs of his family before he was defrauded.

“Today Mr. Kingsley Onyia children are out of school, all Mr. Onyia children schooled in the United States of America before  the incident”,  Know Your Rights for Justice said in a statement signed by comrade Olusegun Adeeko.