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Court Remands P-Square Elder Brother Jude To Prison Over Alleged Stealing
https://osazuwaakonedo.news/court-remands-p-square-elder-brother-jude-to-prison-over-alleged-stealing/27/02/2025/
#EFCC #Jude #MrP #Northside #Okoye #Paul #Peter #psquare #Rudeboy ©February 27th, 2025 ®February 27, 2025 4:05 am Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos State on Wednesday remanded Jude Okoye, the ex manager and elder brother of Peter and Paul of P-Square to Ikoyi Prison over allegations of stealing billions of naira belonging to his younger twin brothers by thus creating an almost similar company name; Northside Music to collect P-Square royalties that ought to belong to the original company, Northside Entertainment. #OsazuwaAkonedo
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Federal High Court sitting in Legos
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State on Wednesday reminded Jun OKO the
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ex-manager and elder brother of Peter
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and Paul of Peace Square to prison over
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allegations of stealing billions of NRA
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belonging to his younger twin brothers
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by thus creating an almost similar
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company name noride music to collect
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these Square royalties that ought to
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belong to the original company norside
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entertainment details of the report as
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presented by the public relations unit
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of the economic and financial crimes
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commit
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EFC rates in full below the Legos zal
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directorate of the economic and
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financial crimes Commission efcc on
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Wednesday February 26
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2025 aren Juno chigi owner brother and
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ex-manager of Paul and Peter OKO of the
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def PE Square music group before Justice
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AOA of the federal High Court sitting in
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IUI Legos he was AR alongside his
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company norside music limited on a seven
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count charge bordering on money
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laundering to the tune of 1.38 billion
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nairas $1 milon
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34537 59 p one of the charges reads that
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you Jun OKO chigi and North Side music
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limited sometimes in
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2022 in Legos within the jurisdiction of
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those honorable courts did directly
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acquire a landed property known as
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number five Tony Aros Street pvw estate
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EO Legos worth 850 million Nas 850
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million naira only which money you knew
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or reasonably ought to have known forms
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part of proceeds of unlawful act and
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thereby committed an offense contrary to
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section 182 de and punishable under
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Section 183 of the money laundering
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prevention and prohibition act
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2022 another charge rat that you Jun OKO
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chigi and North Side music limited
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sometimes in
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2022 in Legos within the jurisdiction of
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those honorable Court did indirectly
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using b day change converted the sum of
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1,
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19,7
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6287 1,1
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19,7
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6287 cents domiciled in Access Bank PLC
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operated by norside music limited to the
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NRA equivalent and remitted into various
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bank accounts with intention of
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concealing that the said fund formed
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part of the proceeds of an unlawful act
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and thereby committed an offense
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contrary to section 182 a and punishable
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under Section 183 of the money
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laundering prevention and prohibition
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act
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2022 he pleaded not guilty to the
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charges following which prosecution Cel
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lpu appli for a trial date and for OKO
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to be remanded in a correct directional
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facility the defense Council in eong
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however informed the court of OKO Bell
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application and prayed for a short date
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of adjournment to enable its hearing the
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defense Council also prayed that the
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defendant be rather remanded in the efcc
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custody pending the hearing of the Bell
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application objecting to the prayer for
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the defendant to be reminded in efcc's
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custody the prosecution Council argued
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that the commissions holding facility
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was already congested with suspects
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awaiting arrangment and that the court
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should remind the defendant in the
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correctional facility since he has taken
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his plea Justice OA adj the matter till
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February 28th 2025 for the hearing of
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the bill application and April 14th 2025
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for trial and ordered that the defendant
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be reminded in E Correctional Center it
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will be recalled that in August
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2024 we had reported that the Nigerian
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music and break dance star Peter OKO aka
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Mr P of the peace queare group has
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accused his twin brother Paul OKO AKA
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boy and their elder brother Jud OKO of
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working together to always humiliate him
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with the twin brother telling lies to
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make fans H him as if he Peter is always
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jealous of him Peter OKO in a new
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statement captured as an open letter
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addressed to his twin brother Paul OKO
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said they have lost command in the p of
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crowds of people or fans unlike when
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they were together as peace sare adding
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since the bo splited with different
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brand names as Mr P and rud boy they
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have not been able to Stage a show with
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the entire Stadium filled with people on
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likee the years they were together as PE
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Square Peter OKO accused their elder
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brother of trying to oppress him adding
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instead of his younger and twin brother
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PA to work together with him to build
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peace sare he decided to pitch tent with
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Jude whom in the open letter he
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described as someone not helping matter
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Peter in the second letter he issued s
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day attributed the likely cause of
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problems in the peace Square group to
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their elder brother Jude whom he accused
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was always stealing their money while
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they were together as peace Square
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according to Peter their elder brother
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secretly created a company similar to
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the name of the original company they
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were using to receive royalties as peace
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sare adding unknown to him the elder
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brother diverted millions of dollars and
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Nira of the money to the secret company
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account which he said both the elder
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brother and wife e fora were the
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directors of the company and the address
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of the registered secret company was the
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Family House of his Elder brother's wife
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he said he never petitioned his twin
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brother before efcc rather it was his
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elder brother J that was petitioned
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invited questioned and detained by the
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efcc Peter OKO words R verba him in
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parts does before I tell you the whole
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story here is what I need you all to
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understand it's always surprising to me
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when people say peace square is always
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bringing their family matters into the
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public eye let me clarify this P Square
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is not just a family it's a public brand
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but Peter
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Paul Jude Anita EA Lola and the rest of
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our family members are family but peace
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square is an entity that belongs to the
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public as much as it does belong to us
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our fans have pled a significant role in
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our success so they have the right to
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know what's happening with their beloved
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brand peace sare that's why it's
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understandable when certain aspects of
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our lives are shed publicly now let's
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get straight to the point I want to make
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it clear that I never reported my twin
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brother Paul to the
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efcc I know many of you were
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disappointed when Paul accused me of
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doing so he mentioned that I wrote a
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petition against him which he claimed me
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the efcc to ask him to provide
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aury this statement suggested that he
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was detained which is not true Peter
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Paul and Jude own a management company
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together called norside entertainment
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which we used to manage all of P s's
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Affairs one day I discovered another
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company with a similar name but this one
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was called Northside music instead of
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Northside
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entertainment this surprised me so I
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decided to investigate further and guess
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what to my sh the founders and directors
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of this secret company were none other
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than Jude OKO and his wife e OKO and the
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registered address was the family home
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of jud's wife still in shock I knew I
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had to talk to Paul about it I
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approached him multiple times at least
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four different times asking if he knew
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anything about this secret company and
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the whereabouts of some of Peace
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Square's royalties each time I met with
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him he denied knowing anything about it
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I want to set the record straight I
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hereby challenge Paul or anyone else to
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show any petition that I Peter OKO ever
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submitted against my twin brother Paul
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or that has Paul's name on it I am still
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writing this with so much shock because
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I gave clear instructions to my legal
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team with a standing order that under no
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circumstances should Paul be included in
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my petition their focus was to remain
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remain solely on the primary suspects
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Jun OKO and his wife e former OKO since
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they were the directors of this secret
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company norside music Paul's recent
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interview about the efcc incident
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contains a lot of lies I watched and
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listened to Paul's interview I was
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totally speechless and I kept asking
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myself how does Paul have the audacity
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to publicly tell lies like this even
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with a respected and reputable agency
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like the
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efcc he claimed I petitioned him but
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that's not something that ever happened
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to Paul
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the truth is this was something that
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actually happened to Jude the real story
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goes back to the shocking Discovery I
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made but what really got me very upset
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was finding out that for years millions
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of dollars and hundreds of millions of
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Nira were being secretly diverted into
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this secret company's account norside
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music from our own company not side
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entertainment this was not just a minor
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issue it was a massive betrayal that had
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been going on for several years I
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understand that Paul is angry because I
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took this matter to the efcc and I
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understand why however bearing in mind
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that I have met Paul and Jud separately
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and tried to discuss this matter and it
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yielded me with no positive answer in
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fact the last time I approached Paul the
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conversation got heed up and he said and
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I quote Peter go and do your worst at
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this said one was left with no other
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choice but to report to the authorities
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and take legal actions Jud was then
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detained after being questioned he came
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clean and admitted he had been diverting
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millions of dollars of our money to this
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secret company that he and his wife were
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the director of all of J's bank accounts
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were immediately Frozen he was
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eventually released on Bell after he
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managed to provide aury and met the
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other Bill conditions meanwhile while
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further investigations are still going
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on up until now Paul's name was never
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mentioned in the petition because he was
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never a director of this secret company
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unless there is something he is hiding
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from all of us Paul was only invited for
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questioning just like jesson Ino of ioko
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TV amaju pic and others who had
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transactional dealings with Nots side
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music the efcc investigation found out
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that norside music had been secretly
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collecting P squares royalties over the
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years this royalty money was sent to a b
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they change then transferred to jud's
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personal bank account a closer look at
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jud's account statement revealed that
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once the money entered his personal
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account there were multiple transactions
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where he was splitting the funds equally
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with Paul without Peter this naturally
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led to some questions after Jud
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confessed to diverting the funds he also
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told the efcc that the money he had been
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sending to Paul for several years was it
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about sharing money behind Peter's back
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instead it was money he Ed PA from the
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sell of their house in America which he
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was gradually paying back the loan this
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is the reason why Paul has been telling
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everyone that the efcc has cleared him
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as if I ever wanted him to get into
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trouble with the
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efcc the story is very long but I will
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tell it all in due time for now I will
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stop here until the efcc sends the final
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report to my legal team once that
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happens before heading to the Law Court
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I will make the exact petition that
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doesn't include Paul's name public I
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will also release the efcc final report
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receipts and other documents related to
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this secret company including the CAC
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registration Bank transactions and Bank
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statement that Jud set up with his
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wife may God help us
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