Uba Petitions IG over Alleged Extortion, Blackmail

Tobi Soniyi
The senator representing Anambra South senatorial district, Senator Andy Uba, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, over alleged attempts by one Victor Uwajeh to extort huge sums of money from him.

In the petition dated April 7, 2017, Uba, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Accounts, accused Uwajeh of making serial attempts to blackmail him with the intention to obtain huge sums of money from him.

Uba alleged that after failing to obtain money from him, “Uwajeh may have resorted to targeting my reputation, my career and my life through the spread of scandalous falsehood about my person.”

The senator said he first met Uwajeh when he (Uba) worked at the Presidential Villa as presidential assistant, but became wary of him when he began to boast that he was an undercover agent who had the dossiers of high ranking “politically exposed persons.”

The senator alleged that the testimonies of top office holders on Uwajeh, including those of the then Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri and the late Prof. Dora Akunyili, further made him stop yielding to the several financial demands of the self-styled undercover agent.

The petition read: “My interest was piqued when he made serious claims about how he was an undercover agent first for the MI5 and British government and then for the EFCC under Mrs. Farida Waziri. His claims that he had dossiers on all politically exposed persons in Nigeria raised certain flags. My worry heightened when Uwajeh tried to use me as a conduit to the so called politically exposed persons into parting with huge sums of money in exchange for destroying what information he had on them.

“As I stopped all communication with Uwajeh, his telephone calls and text messages even became more desperate and threatening. He would go between pleading for financial help to threatening in desperation. These text messages were sent vide mobile telephone number 0705155518 and +447424924346. These messages remain available for verification should the need arise.

“The character of Mr. Victor Uwajeh is not in question as there have been very strong allegations of similar nature against this man. The same allegations I make today have been made by late Akunyili, Waziri, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru among others.
Uba urged the police boss to treat his petition with urgency.