OPEN LETTER TO NIGERIANS ON ESTABLISHMENT OF VENDETTA AND VINDICTIVENESS AGAINST ME BY 80 YEAR OLD COLLEEN MERO YESUFU NOW A SUSPECT IN LAND FRAUD: WHAT DOES COLLEEN MERO YESUFU HAVE TO DO WITH REBECCA OMOKAMO GODWIN ISAAC’S NIGERIAN PASSPORT?
After years of property disputes, petitions, EFCC proceedings and relentless adverse publicity, Rebecca Omokamo Godwin Isaac is now asking why lawyers acting for Colleen Mero Yesufu and members of the Yesufu family have taken their campaign into an entirely different and deeply troubling territory: her Nigerian international passport.
According to Rebecca, the campaign did not stop at questioning the validity of her passport. She alleges that the Yesufus went as far as presenting false and fabricated travel records in support of their petition, claiming that she had recently travelled to London and Dubai. Rebecca states that she last travelled to Dubai in 2022 and had not travelled to London for more than five years.
Even more disturbing, images and details of her international passport were allegedly published online and circulated publicly, exposing highly sensitive personal information to the entire world and creating a serious risk of identity theft, impersonation, financial fraud and other forms of misuse. What began as a dispute over ownership of land has therefore expanded, in Rebecca’s view, into an intrusion into her citizenship records, travel history, personal data and security.
THIS LOOKS LIKE A DESPERATE LAST KICK.
I have watched this dispute move from one institution to another and from one aspect of my life to another.
Now I am asking publicly:
What exactly does Colleen Mero Yesufu have to do with Rebecca Omokamo Godwin Isaac’s Nigerian international passport?
Colleen Mero Yesufu is the petitioner in a disputed Abuja property matter. She is also now specifically named in my counter petition as a person whose conduct, documents and claimed title chain I have asked the authorities to investigate.
Yet Colleen Mero Yesufu and the Yesufu family have also petitioned Nigerian authorities concerning my passport. Why?
What does my Nigerian citizenship have to do with her land claim?
How does a dispute over Plot 4022, Guzape, suddenly become a campaign concerning my Nigerian passport?
This is beginning to look less like a pursuit of property rights and more like an endless determination to find another institution, another petition and another headline through which to attack Rebecca.
COLLEEN IS NO LONGER ENTITLED TO BE PRESENTED AS THOUGH ONLY HER ALLEGATIONS MATTER
For years, Colleen Mero Yesufu has been publicly presented principally as an elderly petitioner claiming to be a victim.
Her age does not establish her title.
Her age does not make her documents authentic.
Her age does not exempt her claimed transaction from investigation.
And filing the first petition does not mean every allegation she makes must be accepted while allegations against her are ignored.
My counter petition specifically asks investigators to examine how Colleen Mero Yesufu claims to have acquired Plot 4022 through Kabiru Yaro, including the agreement, consideration allegedly paid, banking evidence, witnesses, original documents and the identity documents used to process her claimed interest. It further asks investigators to establish how original documents bearing the name of Amina Musa Usman came into the Yesufu chain.
Those are not trivial questions.
They go directly to the foundation of her claimed ownership.
WHAT DID THE ICPC MATERIAL RAISE ABOUT THE ROOT OF THIS TITLE?
This is where Nigerians should pay close attention.
Colleen Mero Yesufu had earlier petitioned the ICPC and the resulting investigation reportedly encountered a grave problem with Amina Musa Usman, the person presented as the original allottee or root of title.
According to the material available to my lawyers, Amina Musa Usman reportedly could not be traced or independently verified. My petition consequently asks that the complete original ICPC investigation file be obtained so that the precise findings can be established conclusively.
So let us ask the obvious question.
If a person’s claimed title ultimately depends upon a transaction originating from somebody whose identity reportedly could not even be properly verified, why is the person relying on that chain treated automatically as the unquestionable victim?
Why is the chain not being investigated by the EFCC with the same aggression directed at me?
My petition asks that Colleen Mero Yesufu and Kabiru Yaro produce the complete financial and documentary chain from Amina Musa Usman through Kabiru Yaro to Colleen, including evidence of consideration, banking records, witnesses and every transfer instrument.
Produce the evidence.
That is all I am asking.
FROM MY HOME TO MY PASSPORT. WHERE DOES IT STOP?
What began as a dispute over property has, from my perspective, expanded into almost every part of my life:
My land.
My business.
My bank account.
My family home.
My prosecution.
My reputation.
And now my passport.
Why has it become another front in this dispute?
It clearly shows the level of cruelty, barbarism and utter desperation of Colleen Mero Yesufu to destroy my had-earned image and business chain.
Colleen Mero Yesufu and those acting with her remind me of the biblical story of the two women before King Solomon. The false claimant was willing to see the child destroyed rather than let the rightful mother have him, while the true mother chose to protect the child at all costs. In the same way, this dispute now appears to have gone far beyond establishing ownership and into a relentless campaign against my reputation, family and personal life. I believe that, as in Solomon’s judgment, the truth will ultimately expose the rightful claim.
I am urging Nigerians and institutions such as the EFCC to look beyond the noise and examine the truth of this prolonged dispute. I ask only that the facts, documents and conduct of everyone involved be subjected to the same scrutiny. From my perspective, I have become the victim of a sustained campaign driven by vindictiveness, vendetta, conspiracy and falsehood, and I believe the truth will ultimately speak for itself.
THE ₦110 MILLION CONTRADICTION
One fact should not disappear beneath the headlines.
The EFCC’s own charge alleges that Richard John Idakwogi of Rychado Homes represented that he was entitled to sell Plot 4022 and caused me to pay him ₦110 million and, that he duped me.
In simple terms, the EFCC’s own charge portrays me not as the beneficiary of the alleged wrongdoing, but as the victim who was duped by Richard to part with ₦110 million for the property. I was the person who paid the money and, on the face of that charge, the person who suffered the financial loss.
I paid for the property.
I took possession.
I developed it and built my family home there.
Yet I have faced some of the harshest consequences arising from the transaction.
That contradiction deserves a clear explanation.
23 DAYS INSIDE MY OWN HOME
For 23 days, I was confined inside my own home while EFCC operatives remained there.
Electricity, water and cooking gas were disconnected by the EFCC and access to essential supplies were Non-existent. One of staff fainted during the ordeal.
There had been no criminal conviction against me.
There had been no final judgment declaring Colleen Mero Yesufu the owner of Plot 4022.
Yet my family life was turned upside down.
Twenty-three days. Inside the home I paid for and built.
That should disturb every Nigerian who believes punishment must follow conviction, not precede it.
WHY WAS AN EXPIRED INTERIM ORDER STILL BEING ENFORCED AND WHY DOES THE EFCC DISOBEY A COUR ORDER?
The EFCC reportedly obtained an interim order in February with a validity of only 14 days, yet months later, in June, operatives moved to enforce that same order at Plot 4022. Thereafter, when the Federal High Court ordered the parties to maintain the status quo ante bellum, the EFCC refused to obey that order. Nigerians deserve to know why an expired interim order was enforced and why a court directive was not obeyed by the EFCC.
MY CHILDREN ARE NOW WITHOUT THEIR HOME
After I eventually left the property and appeared before the court, the EFCC sought to have my bail revoked.
The court refused.
Yet when my family returned to the property, we were prevented from resuming normal entrance into our property.
My children’s clothes, books and personal belongings remain inside.
The dispute is no longer only about documents and competing title claims.
Children have been displaced from the home they know, even though ownership has not been finally determined and their parents have not been convicted of the alleged property offence.
How can that be proportional?
WHO BENEFITS FROM THE FORFEITURE?
The EFCC’s forfeiture process raises another serious question.
The EFCC’s filing seeks forfeiture “for the benefit of the nominal complainants,” Colleen Mero Yesufu.
No final judgment has yet determined that Colleen owns Plot 4022.
So Nigerians are entitled to ask a straightforward question:
If the property is ultimately forfeited, who benefits, under what legal theory, and why should one side of an unresolved ownership dispute obtain a practical advantage before the dispute itself has been finally determined?
That question requires transparency.
WHAT ABOUT AGIS?
The land records themselves should provide answers.
My counter-petition requests a complete audit of the physical file, electronic access logs, file movements, substitutions, amendments, approvals, uploaded identity documents and the circumstances surrounding any caveat placed on or removed from the property.
If nobody improperly accessed or manipulated the records, the audit trail should establish that.
If there was interference, the same records should identify it.
That is why an independent audit matters.
WHAT DOES MY PASSPORT PROVE ABOUT PLOT 4022?
Nothing.
It does not prove Colleen’s title.
So why another agency?
Why another petition?
Why another headline?
From my perspective, the dispute has moved far beyond a straightforward attempt to establish title. It increasingly appears to be an effort to exhaust me financially, personally and institutionally until defending myself becomes unbearable.
I will not give up.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Let Colleen prove her title.
Let Kabiru Yaro prove his transaction.
Let the root of title be independently verified.
Let Richard and all involved pay for duping me ₦110 million and putting my family and I in this situation.
Let AGIS produce its audit trail.
Let the EFCC explain why its own charge portrays me as the person duped of ₦110 million while such extraordinary pressure has been directed against me and my family.
I am a wife.
I am a mother.
I am a Nigerian citizen.
I have not been convicted of the allegations repeatedly attached to my name.
If this dispute is about land, prove the title.
But if the objective is to pursue Rebecca Omokamo Godwin Isaac through one institution after another until she breaks, Nigerians are entitled to see the pattern and ask questions.
THIS LOOKS LIKE A DESPERATE LAST KICK.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
E-signed
Dr Ambassador Rebecca Godwin-Isaac
