A businesswoman, Nkeiruka Cynthia
Kamalu, has told a Federal High Court in Lagos that she was raped by a federal
lawmaker, Uju Kingsley Chima, on August 9, 2015.
Mrs Kamalu told Justice Nicholas
Oweibo that following an incestuous relationship with Chima, the lawmaker
offered to pay her N20 million if she was divorced by her husband, Mr Gabriel
Igbibi.
Chima is the Member, Federal
House of Representatives for Ohaji/Egbema, Oguta and Oru West Federal
Constituency of Imo State.
She is seeking protection from
Chima, who she alleged caused her to be arrested on 27th day of May, 2019
tortured, humiliated, detained for seven days by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad
(SARS) and arraigned on a fictitious N40million theft charge.
Kamalu made the allegations in a
fundamental rights suit marked FHC/L/CS/1458/19 which came up on September 11,
2019.
Her counsel, Chijioke Jiakponna,
told the judge that Chima had been evading service. He alleged that when the
bailiff called Chima on phone to inform him that he wanted to serve him, the
lawmaker cut the call.
Justice Oweibo adjourned till
yesterday to rule on whether to allow substituted service.
Monday, the court did not sit.
When The Nation phoned Chima on
Saturday evening for his reaction to the rape and N20m allegations, he said
“I’m inside a court now, can we talk later? I’m inside a court.”
Later that night and Monday, his
number rang out.
In her August 22, 2019 Affidavit
of Urgency, Kamalu said she filed the suit due to the “intimidation, mounting
surveillance and or illegal oral invitation threat of life and annihilation of
property.”
She said she had been living “in
perpetual fear” of being further detained “indefinitely.”
Kamalu is seeking several reliefs
including a declaration that her arrest and detention “by the respondent at the
State CID Police Headquarters, Owerri, Imo State (SARS) for seven days was
unconstitutional.”
Others include a declaration that
her invitation by the police for another investigation while the case has been
adjourned sine die at the Chief Magistrate Court, Owerri, violates her rights.
She also wants an order
restraining the Respondents, from further arresting, pursuing and intimidating her.
“An order directing the 1st 2nd,
4th to 6th Respondents to release forthwith her Infinix Note 7 and lnfinix Note
8 illegally seized by the Respondents during the arrest and torture in Lagos.
“An order awarding damage in the
sum of N50 Million to the Applicant for the unlawful arrest, torture, unlawful
detention, insult, disgrace, intimidation and the embarrassing treatment meted
out on the Applicant.”
In her August 22, 2019 Affidavit
in support of her application, Kamalu averred that she and Chima began dating
in 1993 while she was in secondary school.
“We dated for 10 years, after
which he proposed marriage and we both agreed to settle down as husband and
wife. Unfortunately, our parents kicked against our relationship on the ground
that we are biologically related and that we were committing incest and could
not get married, so I married another man called Gabriel Igbibi,” she said.
The applicant said she reconnected
with the lawmaker when she needed assistance to execute a contract she secured
and that after she refused his advances, “he raped me.”
“I lodged the case first at New
Owerri Police Station wherein he influenced it and I wrote a Petition to the
Inspector-General of Police, Force State Quarters, Abuja. The petition was
assigned to Zone 9 Police Command, Umuahia, Abia State.
“The 1st Respondent settled the
police and they brokered peace between the 1st Respondent and me, wherein he
promised to take proper care of me because he cannot withdraw himself from me.
She said following their
reconciliation, they resumed their incestuous relationship “fully again”.
Kamalu added: “My husband got
wind of the relationship between the 1st respondent and myself,” following
which he filed for divorce.
When she informed Chima he
allegedly gave her money to hire a lawyer for the case.
“The 1st Respondent promised that
if the divorce succeeds, he will be giving me N20 million every six months and
also buy me a property in any designated place in Lagos.
“The marriage was dissolved at
the Ikeja High Court, Lagos. After the divorce, the 1st Respondent told me that
before he will take the relationship serious, I will have to bear a child for
him.”
According to her, she took in for
him, but had a miscarriage. He then asked her to adopt a baby which would be
his and claim that the baby was born in Canada, but that the baby also died.
She further claimed that he made
her swear to an oath of loyalty, but she eventually caught him with another
woman.
“I became infuriated and he
became furious and warned me never to visit him again, that he is no longer
interested in the relationship. I reminded him of the oath he forced me to take
that no man must have any relationship with me again and the promise to be
giving N20m every six months, buy me a property in a choice area, buy a brand
new car every six months, which he had never fulfilled.
“I told him that I would tell the
whole world how he has ruined my life and deceived me out of my marriage where
I had four children.”
She told the court that this was
why the lawmaker used the police to arrest her on May 27, 2019 and detained for
seven days.
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