Nora Olumide-Johnson
Mike Adenuga
By Our Reporter
Nora Olumide-Johnson, a former confidential secretary of billionaire chairman of Globacom, Chief Mike Adenuga has accused the Globacom boss of witch-hunting her because she dumped him.
Nora alleged that she walked out of a 27 year- old relationship with the Globacom boss and that culminated into her current travail.
In a video that went viral, Ms Olumide-Johnson cried out “leave me alone, what have I done? He said I stole money, the money I didn’t steal because I want to break up. 30 years I gave my life to Mike Adenuga, yet he wants to drive me away from this house. This house that i build, how many houses did I have? What did he do for me? He didn’t do anything for me. No husband, no children. I am finished,” she said.
Ms Nora cried out as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) attempted to evict her from her house. She however pleaded with the anti-graft agency to assist her by not evicting her from her residence.
But in a twist of event, Justice A. Lewis Allagoa, Presiding Judge, Federal High Court (Lagos Division) has ordered the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) to take possession of all property owned by Ms Nora Johnson.
The anti-graft agency had received a petition over some infractions allegedly committed by Ms. Johnson in her former office.
It was learnt that Ms.Johnson was accused of over invoicing on purchase of vehicles; inflating air ticket fares and more and the amount in local and foreign currencies were in excess of One billion naira (N1billion).
Sources within the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) squealed that N507m has been recovered from Nora Johnson, the Sierra Leonean woman involved in a case of multi-million naira fraud against her former employers, and her co-conspirators.
Sources revealed that while Nora Johnson refunded N100m on account of her involvement in the fraud to the EFCC, some of the conspirators in the years-long racket refunded N400m, another accused person refunded N7million on behalf of Nora Johnson.
However, Nora Johnson, according to the EFCC source, reneged on paying the expected balance, which led to her present predicament
It would be recalled that Justice A. Lewis Allagoa, Presiding Judge, Federal High Court (Lagos Division) had ordered that the EFCC should take possession of all properties and bank accounts owned by Johnson and five others.
This followed an application on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria by the EFCC, which charged her to court and subsequently led to the interim forfeiture of her assets on the order of Justice A.M. Liman on February 16, 2021.
However, on March 21, 2021, Ms Johnson and the other respondents: Babajide Aremu Johnson, Olabose Ibrahim Falobi, Steve Nnamdi Izebu, Steve Ibem and Bakoliza Limited went to court to suspend or stay execution on Justice Liman’s order. They had sought the following: an order to discharge the interim order of forfeiture of assets, an order discharging the final forfeiture and any other orders as deemed fit by the court.
In his judgment after hearing J.O. Adeyemi Esq, Counsel for the Applicant/Respondent and V.C. Nwokafor Counsel for the 1st, 2nd and 6th Respondents/Applicants, Justice Allagoa ordered that the motion of Ms. Olumide and the other respondents dated March 12, 2021, be set aside.
The judgment, delivered on July 14, 2021, stated further: “That the order of Justice Liman stands in all its ramifications” and “That the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are entitled to take possession of all that property subject of the Order of my Lord A.M. Liman on the 16th day of February 2021.”
Attempts to make media aides of the billionaire businessman react to the allegations met a brick wall as they did not respond to our enquiries.
