Falana and Falana Chambers Petitions EFCC and ICPC Against Mrs Rebecca Omokamo Godwin Isaac AKA Hajia Bilikisu Ishaqu Aliyu Over Alleged Financial Fraud And Land Grabbing of Plot 4022, Guzape, Abuja.
Legal firm Falana and Falana Chambers has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) against Rebecca Omokamo, also known as Hajia Bilikisu Ishaqu Aliyu, Homadil Realty Limited, and others, for alleged conspiracy to commit financial fraud, forgery of land title and CAC documents, and obtaining funds under false pretences.
It will be recalled that in May 2024, the Nigeria Police summoned PREMIUM TIMES reporter Emmanuel Agbo over a yet-to-be-published report he is working on.
“I am Ezemba Ezekiel from the Intelligence Response Team. I am calling you on behalf of Homadils. You are expected to come over to our office at Abattoir in Guzape to clarify a petition,” he said via a phone call.
Mr Agbo received an invitation letter dated 31 May from the office of the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Intelligence Response Team (NPF-IRT), Abuja, via WhatsApp.
The firm, Homadil Realty Limited, referenced by the police officer in the phone conversation, is a land developer and a major party to a land dispute, which Mr Agbo’s planned story focuses on in which the company’s CEO had petitioned the IGP claiming a certain Yesufu family had stolen her land title documents which she lost in 2014 a few days after purportedly buying it from the original allotee.
The police invitation followed Mr Agbo’s phone conversation with the Chief Executive Officer of Homadil Realty Limited, Hajia Bilkisu Aliyu. Mr Agbo and Mrs Aliyu exchanged messages on WhatsApp, where she shared her reactions to the allegations levelled against her by a family claiming ownership of the disputed land.
Separately and interestingly, in July 2024, Rebecca Omokamo aka Hajia Bilikisu Ishaqu Aliyu, wrote an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, alleging that the EFCC is planning to arrest her upon her return to the country.
In her petition to the President she raised concerns about alleged harassment and intimidation by the EFCC regarding this same disputed land and accused the EFCC of meddling in a purely civil matter with the so called “Faceless Yesufu Family. She alleged that her husband and staff had been arrested and detained for 2 weeks unjustly and that the EFCC was teleguided in its investigations for selfish and unjustifiable reasons.
However, in a letter dated 31 October 2024 and addressed to the EFCC Chairman, Falana and Falana Chamber on behalf of their clients, Collen Mero Yesufu and the Yesufu family, who have been engaged in settlement negotiations facilitated by another of the Yesufu family lawyers Legal Tuxedo & Associates were seeking the conclusion of investigations and the commencement of prosecution against the accused parties referring to Rebecce Omokamo aka Hajia Bilikisu Ishaqu Aliyu, her husband Engr. Ishaqu Isaac Yusuf and their accomplices.
Apparently, after Mrs Rebecca Omokamo’s allegations of bias against the EFCC in her petition to the President, it appears that the EFCC and FCTA in seperate investigations spanning months have uncovered the depth and scale of her alleged involvement in forgery and extensive fraudulent dealings affecting many innocent Nigerians. The scale of the rot and involvement of key people in the FCTA and CAC led the FCTA to send a separate petition to the ICPC, which has begun its own investigation into the same matter.
The letter written to the EFCC Chairman was apparently after all these revelations had come to light and very important people had made spirited efforts to appeal to the petitioners, the Yesufu family to allow these alleged criminals retrace their steps and make ammends for the sake of the many innocent victims involved.
The purported settlement discussions were reportedly met with arrogance, resistance, and complete disregard by Rebecca Omokamo, aka Hajia Bilikisu Ishaqu, even when ALL her associates were heavily remorseful and willing to go to any lenght for settlement to make things right.
Talks were irrevocably put off when the Yesufu’s discovered that Rebecca Omokamo Godwin and her accomplices had also done the same forgery of title, CAC documents and fraudulent sale of another of the family’s property measuring 2.3 hectares in Katampe District selling the entire land to more than 60 innocent victims and using the proceeds to live a lavish life.
Whilst trying to comprehend the motive and reason for picking on this particular family’s landed assets and trying to make sense of the best way to resolve the matter with appeals from quarters to forgive these alleged serious crimes the main actor Rebecca Omokamo Godwin
on 22 October 2024, filed an Originating Motion on Notice for the Enforcement of Fundamental Rights at the Federal High Court in Abuja to prevent the EFCC and ICPC from any further investigations into the scale of fraud committed on the Yesufu’s Katampe property.
Ironically, Mrs Rebecca Omokamo’s husband at about the same period led a delegation including his parents and traditional rulers from Abaji Municipal Area Council in Abuja to visit 78 year old Mrs Colleen Mero Yesufu at the family house in Garki, Abuja to appeal for clemency and beg for forgiveness of the main suspect whose actions and antics have been nothing short of insulting and contradictory.
According to both the Yesufu lawyers in the latest letters to the EFCC Chair, her dubious attempt in using the courts to restrain law enforcement agencies from investigating crimes after the lies in her petition to the President, shows her character and undermines any purported attempts to settle without prosecution.
Citing these developments, Falana and Falana Chambers had urged the EFCC to expedite its investigation and prosecute Rebecca Omokamo Godwin Isaac aka Hajia Bilikisu Ishaqu Aliyu, her husband Ishaqu Isaac Yusuf, their company Homadil Realty Limited and all their accomplices involved. The law firms have also requested a copy of the investigation report for use in its civil proceedings against the suspects in court.
In a related development, Mrs Rebecca Omokamo Godwin Isaac AKA Hajia Bilikisu Ishaqu Aliyu and her company Homadil Realty Limited’s long time company secretary and lawyer Mr. Kolawole James Olowokere, a newly elevated SAN (2024), has withdrawn his representation from all their lawsuits and legal issues regarding this matter. The Yesufu’s had alleged that all her filings in court, which were done by Mr. Olowokere and his firm in October 2023 were “Perjurious” as all the documents given to the court as evidence from her purported Fake Police extract, Power of Attorney and Title Documents were all a forgeries and planned a petition to the disciplinary committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). It is not known if Mr
Olowokere’s purported withdrawal from the case is related to these allegations against her and her company, but as at press time, he still appears to be the company’s secretary according to CAC documents.
In a related development, a human rights lawyer, Barr. Maxwell Opara, on Monday 23rd December 2024, held a press conference on this same case calling on the EFCC to expedite the prosecution of Rebecca Omokamo Godwin Isaac aka Bilikisu Ishaqu Aliyu andher accomplices having completed this investigation.
Barr. Maxwell Opara also called the EFCC to execute the court order granted by Justice Emeka Nwite on the 20th of December, ordering the Commission to Forfeit in the Interim all assets owned by the Yesufu family that were fraudulently trespassed on by the suspects pending the final investigations in the interest of justice and fairness for the petitioners.
