Anambra Lawyer and Son, Arraigned In Court For False Allegation

61 year-old customary court president, Chinelo Egini, and her son, Valentine Egini, 32, have been arraigned before Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos, for providing false information to the police against her brothers.

The accused, who were arraigned on four-count charge, before Magistrate W.B. Balogun, were said to have accused Messrs, Godwin Obedike, Chikewe Igweke and Fidelis Obedike of stealing N40 million from WECO Systems International Limited as well as sponsoring illegal organisation against the Nigerian state and importation of fake and expired drugs.

The false allegations were contained in a petition written to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele, Lagos. But during the course of their investigation, the police discovered that the allegations made in the petition, were false and that the matter between the lawyer, her son and her brothers was over alleged criminal conversion of monies and properties belonging to one of their late brothers, the late Chief Executive Officer of WECO System International Limited, Uchenna Obedike, who died in August 2013, in the USA, without a wife and children.

Information gathered suggest that Valentine and some of his siblings, had taken over their late uncle’s house in Lekki and have allegedly transferred huge sums of money from his bank accounts, using his personal computers.

The brothers, on learning what has gone wrong, demanded for the return of the money and properties stolen from their late brother, but Valentine and his mother, in turn wrote a false petition against his uncles.

Counsel to accused requested that they be granted bail on self recognition as the President of the Customary Court, Igboukwu-Anambra State, but the accused were denied bail. Instead, they were awarded a N1 million bond with a gainfully-employed surety.