….alleges malicious looting of N40m of communications hardware
More troubles are surfacing for Chief Kenneth Gbagi, a former Minister of State for Education as one of his tenants in his sprawling shopping mall, Robinson Plaza, PTI Roundabout, Effurun, Delta State, has petitioned the police and the Nigeria Bar Association.
The tenant accused him of criminal trespass and malicious looting of communications hardware valued at over N40m in his rented shops at the mall.
The businessman, who is also a chief of Ughelli Kingdom (Uvo R’Ovie of Ughelli Kingdom), Chief Raymond Anozie, in his petition to the Delta State Police Command, dated September 28, 2020, accused Gbagi of “forcefully locking up” the four shops he (Anozie) occupied in the shopping mall, otherwise tagged Robinson Plaza, PTI Roundabout, Effurun.
According to the petitions, signed by D. O. Ebihor Esq. from Ituru, Esakido & Associates Law Chambers in Ughelli, the embattled businessman, who is an exclusive franchise representative of a mobile phone brand, is imploring the police “to investigate the looting, stealing and criminal conversion of our client’s goods and properties in the aforementioned shops by Chief (Barr) Kenneth Gbagi and his associates.”
In his prayers to the NBA Legal Practitioner Disciplinary Committee, the petitioner urged the committee “to discipline Chief Gbagi in accordance with the rules governing the legal profession”.
The businessman supported his petition with a signed 56-point affidavit, as well as receipts issued to confirm his tenancy in the said shopping mall, as well as relevant photographs of the disputed shops, as now occupied by new tenants.
Recall that Chief (Barr) Kenneth Gbagi is embroiled in molestation of four of his hotel workers in which he allegedly ordered stripping of the workers and their nudity video, photographed and posted in the social media.