Innoson boss, Chukwuma, slams EFCC with N200bn lawsuit

Innocent Chukwuma, CEO of Innoson Nigeria Limited, has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for defamation, malicious falsehood and unlawful imprisonment.

The lawsuit, National Daily gathered was filed at the Enugu high court by Joseph N. Mbadugha of McCarthy Mbadugha & Co, the counsel to Innocent Chukwuma. The Innoson boss had been arrested by the capital market and insurance fraud unit of the EFCC on December 19, claiming that he resisted arrest and used forged documents to get tax waivers.

Chukwuma maintained that at no time did Innocent Chukwuma receive an invitation or was invited by the EFCC or was there any time he jumped an administrative bail granted by the EFCC, his spokesperson, Cornel Osigwe, said. “Innoson is a public figure and a well-known industrialist of international repute.

There is no how he would be invited by the EFCC and he would ignore or refuse to honour it,” Osigwe said in the statement. He also said he did not have any recent issue with the EFCC. “The last issue Innoson had with EFCC was an invitation extended to him in 2012 based on a complaint against him by Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB). Innoson honoured this invitation and subsequently EFCC filed a charge against him at the Lagos high court. The charge was subsequently struck out,” he said.