{"id":11499,"date":"2018-07-28T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2018-07-28T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T23:16:38","slug":"stella-obasanjos-younger-brother-john-abebe-financially-broke-goes-to-ikoyi-prison-for-fraud-forgery-fabricated-evidence-distortion-of-facts-suspect-issued-fake-4million-to-unsuspecting-busi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/stella-obasanjos-younger-brother-john-abebe-financially-broke-goes-to-ikoyi-prison-for-fraud-forgery-fabricated-evidence-distortion-of-facts-suspect-issued-fake-4million-to-unsuspecting-busi\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella Obasanjo’s younger brother JOHN ABEBE Financially Broke, Goes to Ikoyi Prison…for Fraud, Forgery, Fabricated Evidence, Distortion of Facts *Suspect issued FAKE $4million to unsuspecting business partners *PLUS how he forged BP Exploration Nigeria Limited’s letter BY BOLA OPEYEMI\/CRIME REPORTER, LAGOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stella Obasanjo’s younger brother JOHN ABEBE Financially Broke, Goes to Ikoyi Prison…for Fraud, Forgery, Fabricated Evidence, Distortion of Facts<\/strong><\/span>
\n*Suspect issued FAKE $4million to unsuspecting business partners<\/strong><\/span>
\n*PLUS how he forged BP Exploration Nigeria Limited’s letter<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

BY BOLA OPEYEMI\/CRIME REPORTER, LAGOS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>THIS IS NOT A GOOD TIME for the younger brother of late Stella Obasanjo, JOHN WERIMEME ABEBE as he is presently cooling off in Ikoyi prison, Lagos as ordered by the court on matters relating to fraud, forgery, fabricated evidence and distortion of facts. He was involved in falsely issuing out $4million to business partners who were unsuspecting of his antics. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Corroborating this view, Nigeria’s anti graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office on Thursday, July 26, 2018, arraigned Abebe before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a four-count charge bordering on forgery, fabricating evidence, using fabricated evidence and attempt to pervert the course of justice.<\/strong><\/span>
\nAccording to EFCC press statement, count one reads: \u201cThat you, Dr. John Warimeme Abebe, on or about the 22nd day of June, 2010 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, knowingly forged BP Exploration Nigeria Limited’s letter dated 30th November,1995 to Inducon (Nigeria) Limited by inserting in page 2 of the said letter the following words: \u201cAlso note that the \u2018Buy-Out Option’ only applies to the pre-production stage of the NPIA. The $4m buy-out is thus irrelevant from production of oil in any of our fields\u201d and purported same to have been issued by BP Exploration Nigeria Limited and committed an offence contrary to Section 467 of the Criminal Code Cap C17, Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2003.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Another count reads: \u201cThat you, Dr. John Warimeme Abebe, on or about the 22nd day of June, 2010 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, knowingly used a fabricated evidence in Suit No. FHC\/L\/CS\/224\/2010 Between Dr. John Abebe, Inducon Nigeria Limited And Statoil Nigeria Limited, before the Federal High Court, which evidence was admitted and marked exhibit BB in the said suit and committed an offence contrary to Section 120 (2) of the Criminal Code Cap C17, Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2003.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In view of his plea, Rotimi Oyedepo asked the court for a trial date and prayed for accelerated hearing: \u201cI urge your Lordship to invoke the spirit of Section 19 of the EFCC Act and I also pray your Lord to remand the defendant in prison custody.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to him.The defence counsel, Uche Nwokedi, SAN, however, informed the court of a bail application. He also prayed the court to remand the defendant in the EFCC custody, pending the outcome of the bail application.<\/strong><\/span>
\nIn his response, Oyedepo confirmed receipt of \u201cthe bundle of documents in court\u201d, while the Judge was delivering a judgment (in another matter). He, therefore, prayed for a short time to enable him respond to the application \u201cbecause of certain allegations on oath that was deposed to.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Further investigation by Naija Standard showed that Abebe had allegedly been having financial crisis and struggling to survive, an action which emboldened him to route his criminal activities into altering the contents of the letter head paper of BP Exploration Nigeria Limited so as he may corner huge sums of money for himself.\u00a0<\/strong>Consequently, Justice Dada adjourned the matter to August 2, 2018 and ordered the defendant to be remanded in Ikoyi prison custody pending the hearing of the bail application.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stella Obasanjo’s younger brother JOHN ABEBE Financially Broke, Goes to Ikoyi Prison…for Fraud, Forgery, Fabricated Evidence, Distortion of Facts *Suspect issued FAKE $4million to unsuspecting business partners *PLUS how he forged BP Exploration Nigeria Limited’s letter BY BOLA OPEYEMI\/CRIME REPORTER, LAGOS THIS IS NOT A GOOD TIME for the younger brother of late Stella Obasanjo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}