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Former Police PRO Frank Mba Dragged To PSC Allegedly Gave IGP Abubakar Company

A businessman, Osagie Ogunbor, has accused the former Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Superintendent Frank Emeka Mba, of ruining his 13 year-old marriage to his wife, Augusta, and reported him to the Police Service Commission (PSC).

Mr. Ogunbor has also petitioned the Lagos High Court to dissolve the marriage, with Augusta and Mba as respondents.

The adultery allegations are contained in a petition to the PSC entitled: “Adultery Scandal and Gross Indiscipline – Call Superintendent Frank Mba to Order.”

In it, the businessman detailed various immoral and reckless acts by Mba which allegedly resulted in the collapse of his marriage claiming that the policeman took advantage of his office and the name of the Nigerian Police to take custody of Augusta and the three children of the marriage.

Mr. Ogunbor said the illicit Mba’s affair with Mrs. Ogunbor began sometime in 2009, during which time she worked for Zenith Bank Plc. “I noticed the change in her behaviour which manifested in blatant rudeness and lack of submission to my authority as a husband but I did not even suspect or know that a certain Frank Mba had a hand in her attitude,” he wrote.

“The puzzle began to fall into place sometime in March 2010 when Frank Mba deployed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Gbagada with a gun-trotting policeman to my house to arrest me after Mrs. Ogunbor reported a disagreement we had to him.

“I was sitting in my living room with my three children when two policemen walked into my house, claiming that Frank Mba asked them to come and arrest me,” he said. “A family friend and former President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) Mrs. Nkech Ali Balogun, was in my house on the faithful day.”

A key part of Mr. Ogunbor’s complaint concern’s Mba’s investments, calling on the PSC to investigate how Mr. Mba, being a serving police officer in July 2010, registered a company where he is holding equity shares of 5.5millon as a Director. He identified the company as Brain and Braces Limited, with registration number 902674.

He further called on the PSC to identify how Mr. Mba:

• Allotted a Directorship in the company to his wife, Mrs. Ogunbor, with equity shares of 2million when the company was registered in July 2010, knowing fully well that the woman was domiciled in his house as a staff of the Zenith Bank Plc. at the time of registration of Brain and Braces Ltd; and
• Allotted 1million equity shares to Mr. M.D. Abubakar, who is now the Acting Inspector General of Police and Mr. Frank Odita, a serving Commissioner of Police respectively in the said company.

Mr. Ogunbor wrote: “Once they registered the company, Frank Mba encouraged her to move out of the marriage, dangling carrots of money and fat contracts which he promised they would secure through M.D Abubakar’s contacts, he encouraged her to resign her job with the Zenith bank plc. In July 2011, she resigned.”

On January 27, 2012, Mr. Ogunbor petitioned the Lagos High Court to dissolve the marriage. Mrs. Augusta Ebaahi Osagie Ogunbor and Mr. Frank Mba are the respondents.

He prayed the court to dissolve the marriage on the ground that Mrs Ogunbor has committed adultery with Mr. Mba and deserted her matrimonial home for over one year. He said Mrs. Ogunbor resigned her appointment with Zenith Bank Plc without his consent, and on the advice of Mr. Mba.

The petitioner also averred that his life and security are threatened with the existence of the marriage in view of the adulterous acts between his wife and Mr. Mba.

Mr. Ogunbor said he married Augusta at the Agege marriage Registry on September 25, 1999, but that their cohabitation ended on September 13, 2011 when his wife packed out. He said she took up residence in Anthony area in a property rented for her where he has continued with the adulterous acts with Mrs. Ogunbor in the presence of the three children, thereby, causing psychological and traumatic damage to the young children.