Festus Keyamo Reveals How Ex Gov, Ikedi Ohakim’s Son, Emeka Is Threatening Witness In EFCC Case

Lawyer Festus Keyamo has alleged that Emeka, the son of former governor Ikedi Ohakim is threatening witness in an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s case against the former governor.

According to a material available to societynowng.com

Festus Keyamo,Lawyer to the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday revealed how Emeka, second son of the former Imo State Governor was attempting to harrass a prosecution witness, Abu Sule.
Festus Keyamo

This revelation was the highest point of the resumed at a Federal High Court Abuja on a case involving Ohakim who was dragged to court for paying $2.27m cash for an Abuja property.

Keyamo’s revelation irked the legal team of Ohakim led by Chief Awa Kalu, SAN who appeared with Chief Chris Uche, they wondered why he did not inform them of the said incident.

At the resumed hearing on Tuesday, Keyamo rose to raise the alarm of a threat to Sule’s life, an allegation that he predicated on a call placed to him by the witness on Monday complaining of moves being made by one of Ohakim’s children to find out his (Sule’s) residential address.

Keyamo said, “The witness called me around 9am yesterday (Monday) informing me that the second son of the defendant, Emeka, went to his office at Asokoro and made inquiries about his residential address.

“He (Emeka) asked three people about the address. He asked from one Itakpo and Okoh, who are both taxi drivers, and also from one Architect Sola. But they refused to give the address to him.

“We don’t want to distract the court. We would have consulted with the defence, but this is not the issue of counsel to counsel because the defence cannot protect the witness. It is the court that can make words of caution to the other parties and if.”

Keyamo said he was prepared to file necessary application to enable him to produce in court the three persons contacted by Emeka for the residential address of the witness.

Apparently dissatisfied by the allegation, Kalu, said the issue was one that should have been settled somewhere else and not in the open court.

Kalu said, “I have no doubt that this allegation was meant for the purpose of destabilising the defence. When we were waiting for this matter to be called, he (Keyamo) had the opportunity to discuss the issue with either the counsel or the father of the son, but he didn’t raise any caution.

“In African tradition, when a young boy misbehaves, the attention of his father or mother should be drawn to it.

“We find this issue very disturbing. It is on record that the PW2 testified on December 7, 2015 and only yesterday, the young would go and find out the residence of the witness.

“Since Keyamo refused to give the defence opportunity to investigate the matter, we urge the court to dismiss this story.”

He also dared Keyamo to go ahead and file the application as he threatened in order to “test the veracity of the allegation.”

Keyamo, also again jumped on his feet to protest against what he described as an attempt by Kalu to “dent” his integrity.

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