Advocates for Transparency and Accountability (ATA) and the Peoples Alliance for Indigenous Rights (PAIR) have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to look into the activity of “self-appointed anti-corruption crusader, Mr. George Uboh, over some of his claims.”
Uboh, who is the CEO of Panic Alert Security System (PASS), claimed he was being owed over $44 million from judgment debts by the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), as well as accused the Chairman I’d the forum, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state, of demanding gratification from him.
Uboh accused the governor of demanding 10 per cent of a certain $47.8 million, being a “Consent Judgment” entered into by the NGF and PASS, a claim which the NGF chair has denied.
The coalition in a statement by Danladi Adamu and Mustapha Isa, Sunday in Abuja, also pointed out that in 2019, Uboh was remanded in prison for defaming the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, of fraud.
“Note that Uboh was arrested as he was leaving the court after being granted bail in another matter over false accusation. We have been made aware that he is planning to defame an ex-governor thinking he will always get away with it.
The group cautioned that allowing Uboh to “run rogue” was embarrassing and inimical to the anti-graft war.
“We call on the EFCC to act on the spurious allegations thrown all over the place by Mr. George Uboh. It is worrying that a man that can brazenly claim that he is being owed $44m, accuse a sitting governor and many other influential Nigerians of wrongdoing while he is the only saint send a wrong signal,” for the groups stated.
The groups in April had threatened to drag the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mallam Abubakar Malami (SAN), Uboh, and other acclaimed creditors if they continued to insist on being paid for services not rendered.
The groups said it was curious that Uboh was yet to release the letter of engagement he claimed to have from the NGF several months after they challenged him to do so.
“We had challenged Uboh to make public the letter of his engagement by the Nigerian Governors Forum because we are aware that when he was engaged on June 15, 2014, it was explicitly stated that “your consultancy remuneration will be determined by the Governors,” but we are surprised that till date, Mr. Uboh is yet to take up our challenge.”
According to them, Uboh’s consultancy was terminated in December 2014 as he failed to adhere to his terms of engagement, therefore lacks any claims to any payment.
“It is not enough for Uboh and his co-travellers to continue to rabble rouse in the media when the courts are there. If he were so sure of his facts, he should simply approach the courts and seek for redress.
“All these grandstanding amounts to nothing. We therefore urge him to desist from the mudslinging and nebulous claims of being owed some phantom millions or be ready to meet us in court,” Adamu and Isa warned.
