The Nigeria Immigration Service has declared a passport used by Mike Ozekhome in a UK property case fake, prompting the ICPC to file criminal charges against the senior lawyer.
The Nigeria Immigration Service has confirmed that a Nigerian passport presented by senior lawyer Mike Ozekhome in a London property dispute was never legitimately issued. In a letter to the ICPC, the NIS said passport booklet number A07535463 “was reported stolen and was never personalised,” adding that it “does not exist in the Service’s Electronic Management System.”
Relying on the NIS findings, the ICPC has filed three criminal charges against Ozekhome at the Federal High Court in Abuja, including allegations of receiving property through corrupt means and using forged documents. A UK tribunal had earlier admitted the passport as genuine, stating, “I do not have the evidence… to find that this document… is forged.”