Certificate forgery: Private Investigator ready to testify against Andy Uba

An Abuja based private investigator Victor Uwajeh has made known his readiness to testify in Court against the Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Accounts Senator Andy Uba over his alleged certificate scandal as reported in a section of the media.

Uwajeh also denied allegation of blackmail and extortion raised against him in a petition by Senator Uba to the Inspector General of Police said, “I have never blackmailed Andy Uba, I have three powers of attorney signed by him and myself and I have done the job he asked me to do.”

Sen. Uba had earlier accused Uwajeh of trying to blackmail him, urging the IGP to treat his petition with “your characteristic urgency and meticulousness.”

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, the investigator, who presented several documents to back up his claims, said that he is currently in possession of all the original certificates the Senator claimed to posses.

“Sometimes in 2012 I met with Senator Nnamdi Emmanuel Uba who briefed me that he had issue with United Kingdom authority because he was banned in 2008 from entering the UK and being a British citizen and a private investigator he wanted me to assist him to lift his exclusion ban from entering United Kingdom and he made available to me some documents relating to that ban.”

Some of the documents Uwajeh provided included: “Application seeking for Judicial relieve to enable him enter the UK, he also made documents on grants for his relieve for the then Home office Secretary Theresa May, who is now British Prime Minister to lift the exclusion ban against him among others.”

According to him, the exclusion ban was made in public good of the United Kingdom to exclude him from all territories in UK and the order was sustained.

He also explained that when he met Senator Uba in 2012 at his residence in Asokoro where he gave him Power of Attorney duly signed to act on his behalf, he was going to refund him all the expenses at the end of the job.

He said he also obtained the second Power of Attorney on January 5th 2013 to enable him get a lawyer in the United kingdom to lift the arrest warrant placed on him which was successfully done.

“In the process of working to get the arrest warrant lifted with the UK border Authorities. He issued a letter of Authority to me to act on his behalf on his Senate Letter headed paper which I did satisfactorily.

“After I have concluded everything, I sought for my professional fees and I sent my bill to him and he kept lingering, refusing to pay neither did he negotiate the payment terms.

“At that stage, I filed a court process against him seeking for payment of my professional fees. We started the case since 2016 in Justice Merriam Anenih’s Court and the case was later moved to Court 11 in Apo.

“We have been in Court since 2016. I don’t see the reason why he is alluding to blackmail because we are in Court and you can see the documents that were used to serve him”, he said.

On the issue of certificate forgery, he said Senator Andy Uba presented a lot of documents to be presented to the UK authorities who included some forged documents like WAEC certificate and others.

“All these are documents that were filed in Court and have become public documents which WEAC confirmed when we were trying to verify the issue that the certificate of Senator Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba is forged and I expect the authority to look into it because the issue of forgery in the National Assembly has reached an alarming proportion.”