– Stella Oduah has been allegedly named as the owner of a $1.5 million house in London
– The former minister was said to have purchased it in 2012
– Her cover was exposed when she tried to give the house out for rent
A house in London reportedly worth $1.5 million and allegedly belonging to Senator Stella Oduah has been uncovered.
According to Sahara Reporters, the former minister of aviation bought the house in 2012 and in an effort to avoid detection disguised it as a foreign-registered company.
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According to the report, the senator used ADRIATIC LAND 4 LIMITED which is incorporated in Guernsey in the United Kingdom, for the purchase.
Documents showing London house belongs to Senator Stella Oduah. Credit: Sahara Reporters
She reportedly gave the address of the company, with registration No. 56274, as Mont Crevelt House, Bulwer Avenue, St. Sampson, Guernsey, GY2 4LH.
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The minister’s over as owner of the house was blown as she reportedly engaged Daniel Ford and Company Ltd for the purpose of renting out the house.
According to Sahara Reporters, “when Daniel Ford and Company Ltd. rented out Mrs. Oduah’s London home, she identified herself as the owner of the property, thereby removing the veil of ownership she had imposed by the nature of its discreet registration.”
The Senate via its official Facebook page described the report of the senator owning a London house as false.
This was contained in the statement released on Thursday, September 7 where it was emphasized that the documents provided by Sahara Reporters and the information giving about the house did not add up.
Read the statement below:
The report of an online medium Sahara Reporters alleging that former aviation Minister Stella Oduah procured a property for $1.2 million has proven to be false.
According to a document obtained by our correspondent, the allegations by the medium seem to be false as the details given about the said property did not tally with the document obtained from the UK department of Lands.
Both the cost of the house and the time it was acquired did not tally with the details on the document which is an extract from the UK lands Department.
Sahara Reporters alleged that the house which was kept secret was blown in the open when Oduah who is now a senator representing Anambra decided to put the house up for rent.
According to the document, the title number for the house that is in
The registered address of the house allegedly bought by Oduah was given by the medium as 22 to 37 Monck Street, 84 Horseferry Road and 65 Great Peter Street, London.
However, the land document obtained gives the property address as Apartment 209, Cavendish House, 31 Monck Street, London (SW1P 2AS).
Sahara reporters quoted the registered owner as: ADRIATIC LAND 4 LIMITED, incorporated in Guernsey in the United Kingdom.
Registration No. 56274, of Mont Crevelt House, Bulwer Avenue, St. Sampson, Guernsey, GY2 4LH.
However the document obtained shows the registered owner as: STELLA ADAEZE ODUAH of Longacre, St. Leonards Hill, Windsor SL4 4AL.
While Sahara Reporters quoted that the house was bought for £1,155,000 million, the property registered in Oduah’s name was bought for £700,000.
Sahara reporters also alleged that the property was bough while she was the minister of Aviation, but the title document obtained from the UK Lands Office showed that Stella Oduah bought her London property in 2005, 6 years before she was made a minister of Aviation in 2011.
The online medium also attached a picture of a tenancy agreement allegedly made by Sen. Oduah in March 2017. But rather than carry the address of the property which the medium alleged the minister bough for 1.2 million pounds (22 to 37 Monck Street, 84 Horseferry Road and 65 Great Peter Street, London.), the tenancy agreement bore the address of the original property belonging to Mrs Oduah and which was bought for 700,000 pounds in 2005 (Apartment 209, Cavendish House, 31 Monck Street, London (SW1P 2AS).
Evidently, the report of the medium does not correspond with what the document shows.
In a hurry to put out falsehood, Sahara Reporters also failed to align the currency: while the figure in its report was in dollars, the figure on the document which it quoted was in pounds sterling.
Meanwhile, Mrs Oduah who was an aspirant in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra, had threatened withdrawal from the race, alleging irregularities in Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) build-up to the primary election.
Oduah made this known while briefing newsmen on Friday in Abuja.
She said that the Ward congress of the party held on Wednesday to elect three delegates per ward was fraught with “irregularities and sabotage’’.
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