The Nigeria police force has filed a three-count criminal charge against the Ex-Governor of Imo state whose electoral year was 2007 to 2011.
The Count charges marked CR/993/2020 and dated September 23, 2020, which was filed at the federal capital territory (FCT) high court, Abuja, Ohakim was accused of using the name of Babatunde Raji Fashola, minister of works and housing, to defraud unsuspecting victims.
Following the filing, Ohakim is alleged with the first Count charge which 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.
The Second Count 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 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.
The third charge by the Police futher states 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.”
In view of this, No date has been fixed for the arraignment of the former governor
Ohakim who had claimed that theirs, was a relationship went wrong which the lady was capitalising on to tarnish his image.