Fake landlady arrested in Abuja after 17 years of renting out a property that wasn’t hers

A woman identified as Princess Helen Abang has been remanded in Suleja Custodial Center for falsifying ownership of a two-story structure with six units of three-bedroom apartments by Hon. Justice K.N. Ogbonnaya of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Zuba.

The woman who claimed to be the building owner in the Federal Capital Territory’s Wuse Zone 6 at Plot 70, Yaounde Street, also rented it out without the owner’s permission.

Mrs Elizabeth Ego Olejeme, the 80-year-old owner of the home, apparently learned of the trespass in 2006 and had been trying in vain to reclaim the assets until the trespasser was apprehended on November 7, 2022.

According to the prosecuting lawyer, Abdulrasheed Sidi;

“The accused rented other 5 flats of the 3-bedroom and used the proceeds to fight the widow from recovering the houses since 2006.
She illegally trespassed on the property and has remained there till she was arrested on 7th November, 2022 and charged to Court.
On 7th November when the case came up for hearing, she refused to show up , but was moving from office to office in order to frustrate the case.”

Helen Abang, detained by the police after being arrested on November 7 and brought before a judge on November 22, 2022, pled not guilty to the seven counts that Hon. Justice Ogbonnaya read out.

The judge postponed the hearing on her bail application until November 25. The dates for the substantial suit hearing have been set for December 13–15, 2022.