Family Drags Singer, Uche Ibeto, To Court Over Late Mum’s Property, Others

The Administrator of the Estate of the precocious Mrs Esther Ibeto, has dragged Jigida singer, Uche Ibeto, earlier the High Court of Justice of Lagos State, implicit unlawful possession of the deceased’s property.

Uche is known for her fashionable euphony deed album, Jigida Dance successful the 80s.

Led by the Administrator of the Estate, Mrs. Laura Chinyelu Okoh, successful a suit filed done her counsel, Barr E. Omoijiade, dated October 2, 2025, accused their sister of unlawfully taking possession of cash, valuables, spot rubric documents and rental income belonging to the Estate aft their mother’s death.

They besides accused Uche of sponsoring defamatory publications successful the media against the Administrator and different members of the family.

Specifically, they mentioned a work successful an online platform, dated September 9, 2025, wherever she accused Mrs Okoh of conniving with a judicial serviceman to eject her from her location astatine 36, Ibezim Obianulu Street, Lagos, wherever she had lived.

But the Estate Administrator, connected behalf of the family, prayed the tribunal for an bid for Uche, who is the sole suspect successful the matter, to instrumentality each assets belonging to the Estate, supply a afloat relationship of the Estate’s finances and people a retraction and apology for the defamatory statements.

The plaintiff besides asked the tribunal to bid monetary compensation of N10,000,000 for defamation and N10,000,000 for the outgo of the ineligible action.

She further prayed the tribunal for an bid for Uche Ibeto to relationship for £10,000 allegedly withdrawn from their deceased mother’s Barclays Bank relationship and a perpetual injunction restraining Uche Ibeto from interfering with the Estate oregon publishing further defamatory statements.

In the connection of claim, deposed to by the Estate Administrator, the claimant successful the matter, Mrs Okoh, averred that the Uche Ibeto without lawful authorization from the administrators of the property rented retired assorted portions of the deceased’s property, including the boys’ quarters, garages and flats, and converted rental income of much than N25,000,000 to her idiosyncratic use.

The claimant further said that contempt repeated requests and demands, Uche Ibeto has persistently refused, neglected and failed to supply an relationship for oregon instrumentality the monies, valuables and documents that were unlawfully removed from the deceased and the Estate.

“These assets, which are rightfully portion of the Estate of the precocious Mrs Esther Ibeto, stay successful the defendant’s possession without lawful justification oregon explanation. In enactment of these claims, the claimant volition rely, astatine the proceedings of this suit, connected a ceremonial missive dated 20th August, 2025, which was issued to the suspect demanding the contiguous instrumentality of the Estate assets inactive held by her,” she said.

The claimant further stated that, pursuing the defendant’s persistent refusal and neglect to relationship for the Estate assets successful her possession, arsenic good arsenic her ongoing dissipation of the remaining assets, it became indispensable to merchantability the location successful the champion involvement of the estate.

No day has been fixed for the proceeding of the case.