About five years ago, Hajia Habiba Abubakar sued Jim Iyke accusing the Nollywood actor of owing her N16m.
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In the lawsuit, she claimed the star actor took advantage of her kind gesture to defraud her of a whooping 16 million naira and thought he could scare her on Twitter by saying she was only interested in dating him.
Abubakar said in the court that she happened to meet Iyke when he approached her to help his sick mother, adding that along the line, the actor asked him to invest in his clothing line, and she obliged him and invested N16m but it turned out to be an alleged fraud.
“I run a charity organization called Elderly and the Poor, a self-sponsored charity organization. Jim Iyke needed help for his aged mother who is crippled by leg problems and high blood pressure and now bed-ridden. We took her to both England and India.”
“We were told what was wrong with her and how much her hospital stay for knee replacement will cost my charity in UK and we have a policy for money, so we decided to take her to India in first class because it’ll be cheaper there, attached are tickets, photos as exhibit.
“Jim told me he has been on the street since age 11 and that he had no childhood. I cried, because I had a son of that age at that minute. It was really heart breaking. But I realize now that you can take a person off the street but you can’t take street off the person, no matter what you do,” she claimed in the court.
Latest report claimed an Abuja High Court in a judgment its delivered on 19th of October 2017, ordered Iyke to repay the remaining balance of N15.7m to Habiba.
The report said the actor had paid N300, 000 before the judgement.
