Tuesday 9 August 2022

BREAKING NEWS: ANA Ebonyi State member, Mr. Martins Uka declared wanted by Police

 


Written by Blessed Adjekpagbon

Mr. Martins Uka, a member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Ebonyi chapter is said to be on the run after issuing a dude cheque to a money lending outfit and allegedly also tried to illegally sell the duplex of an ANA Abuja member in Wuse Zone 6, Abuja FCT, Nigeria.

According to information received by Bulkybon News; the suspect (Martins) who parades himself as a prince, issued a dude cheque of N8.4 million  to one Mr. Daniel Ageva, who runs a money - lending company known as Dan - Age Global Services Limited, located at #60, Lome Street, Wuse Zone 7, Abuja FCT. 

The cheque was said to have bounced and Martins approached a member of ANA Abuja, (name withheld) who owns a duplex, to stand as guarantor for him to collect a loan of N6 million. 

As a familiar member (Martins) of ANA Ebonyi chapter, the duplex owner innocently obliged to stand as a guarantor for the suspect to collect a loan of N6 million, without knowing that it was a setup to rob him of his lifelong property. 

The guarantor only realized the setup when things went awry as he was later continuously embarrassed by strange people coming to inspect his house allegedly put up for sale by him. It was then the plan of Martins and Ageva's connivance to illegally sell his house was blown open. The duplex owner then understood that he had been tricked into signing a document that was hitherto simultaneously presented to him by the company's owner and the suspect (Martins) as a guarantor's form for a N6 million loan to be given to the suspect. The supposedly guarantor's form turned out to be a contract agreement claiming that the house owner has sold his duplex for N6 million. 

When asked whether he read the contents of the document before signing it, the guarantor (house owner) who is an advanced retired civil servant said, "l was not with my glasses when Martins came to my house with two gentlemen who identified themselves as Mr. Christian Gideon and Mr. Benjamin Nwankwo, on the 20th of April, 2022.  Then, Martins said l should hastily follow them to a financier who wants to give him a loan for his political plan to contest for the seat of Afikpo South / Afikpo North Federal Constituency of Ebonyi State, to become a member of the Federal House of Representatives at the National Assembly through the forthcoming 2023 elections. 

"I obliged to sign as a guarantor because l had known him as a member of ANA Ebonyi State chapter for some years, and also thought he was a reputable man because he always put up in my house whenever he came to Abuja.

"Moreover, l was glad that the presence of another ANA member in the National Assembly will be a thing of prestige for the members of the writers association if he wins the seat he claimed he wants to vie for. I was convinced because he had earlier shared to me through whatsapp, some designs of his pictures as a candidate of one of the political parties in Nigeria, vying to become a member of the national assembly.

"So, without reading the voluminous contents; on trust, l signed all the portions l was directed to sign at Mr. Ageva's office by one Barr. Nwadike E.K and Co, while believing that l was signing a guarantor's form for the loan Martins wanted to collect. It was when their dubious plan later blew open that l discovered that he had earlier presented a cheque of N8.4 million to Ageva, which bounced. 

"I was further shocked when l discovered that the cheque leaflet was stolen from my cheque booklet and written by Martins. He must have perpetrated the act of stealing the leaflet during one of his visits and long stay in my house for days."

However, the issue was later reported at a police station in Abuja. In the process of investigation, it was discovered that both the company's owner and  the ANA Ebonyi suspect had connived and probably hypnotised the duplex owner to sign a document claiming that he has sold his house whose value is presently estimated to be worth over a billion naira, for a paltry sum of N6 million that he neither applied for nor collected. Thereafter, Ageva was arrested but later released on bail.

This news platform also gathered that all attempts made by police to call Martins to hear his own side of the issue, has been in vain as he is said to have blankly refused to answer telephone calls of the retiree and police. Martins mobile numbers forwarded to Bulkybon News are stated thus: +2348037044693 and +2347056122968. 

Any information about his whereabout should be kindly forwarded to these numbers: +2348091087559 and +2347080354486.

When contacted through the phone number 08037044693, a male voice who answered it hesitated when asked if he was Martins and then cut the line. Other attempts on the phone line met with an engaged tone.

 

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