FORMER WBA light heavyweight, British
and Commonwealth boxing champion, Peter Oboh, who dumped his boxing
career to win souls for God few years ago, is currently in court
battling to save his hard earned name from being dragged in the mud.
A middle-aged man better known as
Kabiru Maiyegun went out of his way last year to blackmail the boxing
champion.
He claimed that the erstwhile boxer
hired seven hefty men to beat him up for refusing to publicise a
false miracle he did in the national dailies. But luck ran out on him
after the police investigated the matter and discovered that the
medical report he presented before the court was forged.
Narrating his ordeal to WG, as the case
came up last Friday at the magistrate court sitting in Ebute Metta,
Lagos, Peter Oboh said that when he returned to the country last year
from London, he met one Kabiru Maiyegun who claimed that he could do
everything, including being his publicist. With time, according to
him, he discovered that he was a very cunning man.
Narrating further, Oboh said “trouble
started last year after I paid the guy to do a printing job for me
before I travelled abroad. When I returned to the country, I
discovered that he never did the job, and since then, I decided not
to trust him again. The decision did not go down well with him. As a
result, when I wanted to print banners for my crusade programme, I
asked him to get me a printer, which got him angry. Before I knew
what was happening, he approached the receptionist at our guest house
and collected some money from him on the pretext that I sent him.
“When I confronted him, he
threatened to fight me. Later, he left and after six months of the
incident, he resurfaced with some policemen to arrest me. When we got
to the police station, he told the police that I sent seven hefty men
to beat him up because he refused to help me publicise a false
miracle I did in the national dailies, and that I threatened to kill
him if he didn’t carry out the assignment.
“In fact, he backed his claims with
pictures where he had blood stains all over his face. But he had no
proof as the medical report he said to have brought from LUTH was
forged. Apart from this, he had no witnesses to stand for him. The
police, however, dismissed the case. But he would not give up as he
dragged me to court, suing for assault alongside the Nigerian police.
Unfortunately, while in the court, the case turned against him as the
trial judge remanded him in prison till date.”
Meanwhile, the magistrate court
adjourned the case to October 16.
Maiyegun is, however, standing trial on
a three-count charges of corruption, forgery and blackmail which is
punishable under the law. The boxing champion who’s planning to
relocate to the UK next year said, while he has forgiven him as a
servant of God, and will allow justice to prevail between them.
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