Lawyer drags Sen Ireti Kingibe to ICPC over alleged N65m fraud, abuse of office

An Abuja based lawyer, Elochukwu Obi, has dragged the legislator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ireti Kingibe, earlier the Independent Corrupt Practices and different related offences Commission (ICPC), praying for probe of the lawmaker implicit allegations bordering connected maltreatment of bureau and fraud to the tune of N65 million.

The lawyer sought the senator’s probe by ICPC for allegedly defrauding a businessman, Mr Nonso Okafor.

In a petition presented to ICPC and received by the anti-graft agency, the businessman done his lawyer is accusing the legislator alongside 1 of her Senior Legislative Aides (SLA), Mr. Osereme Christen Omofoma, of fraudulently obtaining the sum of $65,000 (Which was equivalent to N118,000,000, astatine that time), from him sometimes successful October 2024.

In petition dated April 27, 2026 and addressed to the ICPC boss, the petitioner recalled however helium was “deceitfully lured into paying the sum of $65,000 pursuing aggravated persuasion exerted connected him” by Omofoma.

Elochukwu Obi, counsel to the petitioner, who signed the petition connected behalf of his client, claimed that the SLA had approached his lawsuit pleading with him to assistance “raise the sum of 100,000 USD, for the senator, to alteration her conscionable urgent fiscal needs”.

According to him, the SLA promised that the wealth volition beryllium repaid successful afloat oregon successful the alternative, the legislator volition facilitate the awa...