November 07, (THEWILL) – About three weeks after she warned the public not to associate her with her daughter’s business, Nollywood actress, Ireti Doyle, has now been accused of using Interpol and the Nigerian police to arrest victims of her daughter’s fraudulent business for accusing her of refusing to call her daughter to order.
The actress took to micro-blogging platform, Twitter, to issue another warning to those dragging her over the fraud issue but do not know the entire facts. Writing in fluent and pidgin English, Ireti called such people purveyors of violence who may end up having to ‘hang’ themselves for not getting their facts right. But instead, a human rights-oriented organisation, Concerned Nigerians, has accused Ireti of using Interpol and the Nigeria Police to pick up, harass, and intimidate victims of her daughter’s fraudulent business who had called her out on social media.
The platform also warned the actress to stop using her connections and corrupt people to intimidate innocent Nigerians as it is an abhorrent abuse of power. The organisation then asked the victims to reach out to it via social media direct messages as it plans to contend with Ireti and fight for them.
A few weeks ago, THEWILL had published a report, which revealed how Ireti’s first daughter out of wedlock, Kachi Ngozi Onyeluo, through her actions, was bent on tarnishing her mother’s image and destroying her mother’s reputation and the legacy of her acting career spanning two decades.
According to the report, the married mother of one, who is a hair vendor and self-proclaimed ‘biggest wig manufacturer in Africa’, allegedly made a living defrauding unsuspecting customers and entrepreneurs who desired to buy from her to resell.
Through Kachi Hair ventures, which is situated somewhere in Ikeja, Kachi would post on her business social media handle, photos of affordable and beautifully made wigs for retail customers, as well as offer mouthwatering deals to wholesalers.
Many would-be customers allegedly made payments into a bank account she provided, but that is where the transactions ended. Kachi neither delivered the products to her retail customers nor to the wholesalers, some of who paid millions of naira for the mouthwatering deals.
And while many have tried unsuccessfully to either retrieve their money or get the product they paid for, Kachi carries on as if everything is normal, even announcing hair sales every quarter in different cities. Despite several petitions written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Council and the intervention of a popular media personality, there is no stopping Kachi, or so it seems, as she continues in her fraudulent ways.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
