…. the VDM’s China trip angle
The management of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to be enmeshed in a scandalous legal battle if the brewing crisis between them and veteran actress Barbara Odoh, is not nipped in the bud.
Veteran Nollywood actress Barbara Odoh has threatened a N1b lawsuit against EFCC, amongst other damages and claims.
According to a pre-action notice addressed to the Chairman of the commission through her lawyers, Kuta Solicitors, the actress lamented the unfortunate incident of the unlawful use of her intellectual property.
This is the content of a presentation she had made on ‘modern ways of combating online (cyber) financial crimes’ code named ‘BSafe Transact’, aimed at verifying vendors and securing buyers to a team of ICT personels of the commission led by Mr. Isa Abdullahi on the 13th of January 2025.
According to an infuriated Barbara, “after my presentation, Mr Isa invited me to his office to acknowledge the ingenuity of my project and requested that I worked with him in some of his private projects.
But strangely, after some time, he stopped taking my calls and responding to my sms despite my consistent efforts to reach him to confirm the way forward on the proposed partnership with his commission. I even tried using some other staff of the commission to reach him, to which he promised them to get back to me but never did.
While I silently wondered his sudden cold disposition towards a project that he had initially expressed enthusiasm; on the 2nd of March 2025, a friend highlighted me on an online (Facebook) video by a popular social media influencer, Mr. Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan and when I saw the video, of his China trip, i was devastated and it dawned on me that my project had just been usurped verbatim.
I have every reason to believe that Mr Isa Abdullahi is behind this. Hence, my first port of call is to the EFCC chairman while calling on all well-meaning Nigerians to support my cry for justice. “
From further interrogation, we realised that the coincidence and similarity of both projects are dubiously suspicious.
Barbara Odoh also informed our reporter that she had her project properly registered and patented among several pieces of evidence that she has to prosecute the matter.
Meanwhile, efforts to speak with Mr Isa Abdullahi, the head of ICT at EFCC, proved abortive as he never answered any of the several calls we made to his MTN line
