UDISAM Transport Company petitions IGP, others over alleged advance fee fraud by Ebonyi ex-commissioner

A transport relation successful Ebonyi State, UDISAM Mass Transit Company, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and different information agencies implicit alleged beforehand interest fraud, transgression intimidation, and threats to beingness involving a erstwhile authorities authorities authoritative and his associates.

In petitions dated April 3 and April 22, 2026, and addressed done the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) and ineligible representatives, the company’s Director, Comrade James Igwe, accused a erstwhile Commissioner for Transport, Hon. Celestine Nwali, alongside respective others, of fraudulently obtaining wealth nether mendacious pretence.

According to the petitions, the transport institution had earlier secured support and paid the required fees to the Ebonyi State Government for a loading bay astatine the Central Motor Park, Abakaliki, nether the erstwhile administration.

However, astatine the commencement of the existent administration, the erstwhile commissioner allegedly approached the company, clai...