Nigerian entertainer, Uche Ibeto, popularly generally known as the Jigida Queen, has issued a pointy rebuke to Abuja lawyer, Victor Giwa, urging him to “face his trial in court docket and cease making an attempt to sway the general public with media blackmail.”
Her assertion adopted a video circulating on-line through which Victor Giwa claimed he was being persecuted by the FCT Judiciary and the Nigeria Police Drive. Ibeto dismissed his remarks as “low cost propaganda” aimed toward evading justice.
She stated she has been carefully monitoring the continued legal circumstances within the FCT through which Victor Giwa and his affiliate, Cecil Ezem Osakwe, are standing trial for alleged forgery, illegal eviction, impersonation and malicious injury in a case involving Asabe Waziri. She described the prosecution as encouraging and expressed solidarity with Ms Waziri.
“I salute the braveness of Asabe Waziri for standing as much as bullies,” she stated. “I perceive your pains as a result of I went via the identical ordeal of their arms. I stand firmly with you.”
Ibeto thanked the Inspector Normal of Police and the AIG Authorized for what she known as commendable work, and urged them to provide related consideration to the petitions she submitted in August.
Her newest assertion revisits her long-running dispute over her late mom Esther Ibeto’s one-storey constructing at 36 Ibezim Obiajulu Road, Surulere. She stated her mom died with no will in 2013, and that though letters of administration had been issued to her two elder sisters, they coated belongings solely and never the home. She insisted she lived within the constructing for many years and nonetheless holds the unique title paperwork.
Based on her, she was unaware of any sale or authorized proceedings till a judgment was delivered on 10 July 2025 in favour of purchaser Cecil Ezem Osakwe. She alleged that the ruling was “fraudulently obtained” via impersonation, cast paperwork, improper service and questionable filings. She additionally stated neither she nor any tenant was joined within the go well with.
Ibeto recalled that on 15 August she was forcibly evicted at daybreak by policemen, thugs and court docket sheriffs who claimed they had been imposing the judgment. She accused Victor Giwa of main the operation and stated she was harassed and thrown out in her nightwear. She claimed her belongings price over half a billion naira had been stolen or destroyed and that building work started instantly after her removing. She added that considered one of her sisters denied ever collaborating in any sale or lawsuit proper there on the day of the eviction.
She additional listed a number of grounds on which she believes the judgment was improper and rushed, together with undated sale paperwork, alleged filings ready by one authorized crew for either side, failure to correctly serve one of many defendants and a land registry search that linked the court docket’s paperwork to a completely completely different property in Alimosho.
Ibeto additionally alleged that her petition to the Zone 2 Police Command in Lagos stalled on account of interference by a senior officer linked to one of many defendants, which she stated emboldened these behind the eviction and led to repeated break-ins on the property regardless of police warnings.
She appealed to the Lagos State Authorities, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the Inspector Normal of Police, the Lawyer Normal of the Federation, the Nationwide Meeting and the Nigerian Bar Affiliation to make sure her petitions and the associated prosecutions proceed with out obstruction.
“Victor Giwa ought to face his trial in a court docket of legislation, not within the media. He isn’t above the legislation,” she stated, urging the general public to not be swayed by what she described as his “marketing campaign of calumny.”
She stated justice should prevail not just for her however for others making related allegations. She added that for the reason that eviction she has been “perching from place to position,” and that her well being has worsened. “At my age, I have to return to my dwelling and resume my life,” she stated. “I thank my followers, the Nigerian Police and the media for standing by me.”
The dispute inside her household has additionally continued to generate consideration. In earlier experiences, Ibeto alleged that her elder sister, Laura Okoh, conspired with a judicial officer to forcefully take away her from the house she shared with their mom for greater than 50 years. Her household denied the allegations, calling them false and deceptive.
Earlier experiences additionally revealed that Ibeto, via her lawyer Onwubualili Sylvester, petitioned the Lagos Chief Decide and the AIG Zone 2, insisting the judgment transferring the home to Cecil Ezem Osakwe was secured via forgery and false depositions.
