Mrs. Obiageli Anachebe alias Odiuko and
her alleged fraudster partner and fake
spiritualist, Innocent Chukwu, alias
Ohamadike, were recently re-arraigned at
an Ikeja High Court for defrauding a
business woman, Chief Vivian Amadife of
the sum of N97 million and a property
worth N35 million.
Odiuko and Ohamadike were first
arraigned before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye
of the Ikeja High Court, Lagos, by the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) for allegedly
defrauding their victim of the huge sum
of money and property under the guise of
performing spiritual cleansing on her
and her entire family.
Both suspects were arraigned on five-
count charge.
Odiuko, whom the prosecution counsel
accused of jumping bail, forgery and
obtaining another international passport,
after the EFCC confiscated her first travel
document, was granted bail with the sum
of N2.5million.
As at Monday, Anachebe was still
remanded at the female wing of Kirikiri
Prisons, for failing to meet her bail
conditions.
The court also told the suspect, who is
the producer of Rancco Water, Enugu, to
provide two sureties in like sum, who are
also resident in Lagos. They must show
evidence of tax payments in the last three
years, before she would be allowed to go
home.
Anachebe, who wore a POP on her neck,
was brought to the court in a mini
prison bus looking distraught and
embattled.
When the matter came up again for
second hearing on October 14, Justice
Ipaye refused to grant the bail
application of Ohamadike, the first
accused.
Ohamadike, the founder of Esoteric
World Discovery Limited, was remanded
at the same Kirikiri Prisons, pending
when the case comes up again for full
trial on October 28.
Meanwhile, a mild drama ensued in the
court premises when the female and
another armed male prison staff attached
to Obiageli Anachebe aka Odiuko,
disallowed journalists covering the case
from taking photographs of the suspect.
According to the anti-graft agency,
Chukwu and Anachebe first collected N50
million from the businesswoman, Mrs.
Amadife, with the promise that the
money would be used to solve all her
problems spiritually, a claim the
prosecution said the accused knew was
false.
The prosecution said the accused
committed the offence between October
and December 2013, in Lagos.
According to the charge suit number
ID/1332c/2015, it was stated that the
accused conspired to ‘obtain money by
false pretences, stealing by fraudulent
conversion and concealment of deed.
The offences, according to the
Commission, contravened Section 8(a)
and 1(3) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and
Other Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006
and Sections 285(9)(c) and 288 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The charge further alleged that Chukwu,
on ‘or about February 14, 2014,
dishonestly converted another sum of
N16.9 million property of Amadife and
Pamela Ihediwa of Bluebeam Capital Ltd,
Lagos.
He was accused to have obtained the sum
by claiming to have for sale, a United
States dollar equivalent of the N16.9m
which representation he knew to be false
and dishonest.
It added that between October and
December 2013, Chukwu also
fraudulently and dishonestly obtained
and concealed the title documents to a
building valued at N35 million at No. 4,
Nteje Street, New Haven, Enugu, property
of Amadife.
Spokesman of the EFCC in Lagos, Sammin
Amadin confirmed the suspects have
been remanded in prison for alleged
fraud.
According to Amadin, “Yes, we are
investigating the two suspects. We have
charged them to court they have been
remanded in prison custody.”
The matter was adjourned till October 28,
for full trial of the accused.
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