A federal lawmaker, Uju Kingsley
Chima, who was accused of raping a woman, Nkeiruka Cynthia Kamalu, in 2015 has
denied the allegation.
Mr Chima, the House of
Representatives member for Ohaji/Egbema, Oguta and Oru West Federal
Constituency of Imo State, said Kamalu was a liar and serial fraudster out to
extort money from him.
He said that Kamalu
was also trying to divert attention from her two N40 million fraud cases at a
high and magistrate’s court in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
“It is a pure case of fraud,
someone who has been defrauding for years. Pure case of fraud! She even
defrauded my friend to the tune of over N10 million. (There is) evidence,
complete evidence!”, Chima said.
Kamalu had claimed that she lost
her pregnancy for Chima’s baby, but that at his instance, she adopted a baby
which would be theirs. The baby subsequently died.
But the lawmaker denied that
Kamalu was ever pregnant for him. He insisted that she lied that she had a baby
for him in Canada through In vitro fertilization (IVF) and demanded that he
send her $45,000.
Chima said: “Now, you are a man,
let me ask you a question: somebody that said you raped her in 2015, and in
2018, the same person came and said she had birth (sic) for you: Is it
possible?
“The same person that said you
raped her in 2015 came back in 2018 and said you asked her to go and adopt a
child for you: is it possible?
“This girl came up on 12th of
December that she was pregnant. I said ‘did I impregnate you?’ She said ‘No’,
that she did IVF. I said ‘I have never had anything, I have never had
intercourse, how could you now come up to say I impregnated you? How? Is it by
air?’ She said she did IVF. Because she knew I was running an election the next
month, that was in February. She wanted to extort money from me through that
means.”
In court documents seen by The
Nation, Kamalu said her adopted baby died of ill-health in Lagos on April 30,
2019.
She attached a purported Lagos
State Government issued death certificate.
But the lawmaker described her
action as fraudulent.
He said: “When I couldn’t hold
it, I personally went and reported to the police: ‘Look at what is
transpiring.’ The police, on its own, went into investigation, discovered, not
even me, discovered, I didn’t know that she bought a child in Enugu and the
child died in Lagos.”
“So, you can see the level of
fraud that she has been perpetrating. All her statements are evidenced, even in
the courts she stood in the dock and was saying all of these things. That was
in Owerri. The magistrate was so angry and remanded her. They released her this
month or last month only for her to tell a story that I raped her.
“This lady has been doing this.
Trying to use that way to extort money from me and when I realised her
mischievous attitude, the matter was reported to the police and the police went
into investigation. It was the police that even discovered that this lady even
bought a child in Enugu, trying to use the child to cover up the pregnancy she
said she lost, because she said she was pregnant, when she was not.
“She wasn’t pregnant, she claimed
I should pay her, is it $45,000? That she had the child in Canada, twins. She
was using a Canadian line to call. She even forged a visa, a Canadian visa,
that she was in Canada already, that I should send money to her in Canada.
“Where will I get $45,000 to send
to her? I quickly ran to the police, but before then I had already reported her
to the SSS (State Security Service) for fraud, but because I was running an
election, they said I should play along so that I can have tangible things
against her, which happened.”
He also debunked her claim that
he promised her N20 million or promised to buy her a house.
Chima said; “I can confidently
tell you that this girl is a serial fraudster and serial liar. I do not in any
way have any agreement of buying any house for this girl. I do not in any way
have an agreement of giving her N20 million every six months. If she has any
evidence that I made an agreement to give her a house, she should show where
the agreement was written.
“The police in Owerri are
investigating her and what she is trying to do is to divert attention, that’s
what she is trying to do. Her matter is in court, the child trafficking case is
in court in Owerri. One is in Magistrates’ Court Owerri, one is in High Court
Owerri.
“So, running down to Lagos to go
and file a fundamental rights suit. It’s ridiculous and, mind you, I’m a
politician and my political opponents too are at work.”
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