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Delta State politician Prince Kpokpogri, the ex-boyfriend to Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh, has allegedly been arrested by the Department of State Services.
This was made known by Instagram blogger Gistlovers alongside a petition to the commissioner of police stating Prince Kpokpogri is being investigated for alleged blackmail, extortion and obtaining private information by false pretence.
The blogger likened Prince Kpokpogri as a time bomb about to explode, and if released from the custody of DSS, numerous people will also arrest him.
The blogger wrote: Kpokpogiri picked up by DSS some minutes ago,i go dey update Una as the matter take dey go,plenty offence dey the guy leg, from blackmailing politicians to threatening ladies with their nu*s,i Dey come, if them release am today,another person go pick am up tomorrow, them plenty wey wan face am now, Kpokpogiri is a time bmb still walking, about to exploded. I come in peace.
This comes after Tonto ‘s colleague Doris Ogala alleged that Prince Kpokpogri blackmailed senators, former and current Governors, NDDC MD and many others.
The petition filed by Festus Kayamo Chambers read: We are solicitors to Miss Tonto Dikeh and i is her instruction that we write this petition to your esteemed office. We have been brief as follows.
That sometime in June 2021, one Prince Kpokpogri Joseph started to court our client with a proposal to marry her. In the process, he would invite our client to his residentce and sometimes he came over to our client’s residence. Unkown to our client, the said Joseph Kpokpogri (who our client discovered to be a serial blackmailer) and other motives for courting our client.
Our client now has reasons and evidence to believe that Joseph Kpokpogri had planted closed-circuit television cameras at privare areas of his residence and had staged managed those visits with the aim of blackmailing our client.
She was surprised when sometime in August 2021, the suspect started demanding money from her and threatening to expose nude pictures and other such documents relating to her.
To actualize his demands, the said Kpokpogri started sending messages, documents and files containing sensitive information and materials relating to our client to her phone while also releasing some to the public. Our client believed that some of those information were obtained either by wire-tapping her phone and or through
such other means without her authorization.
The said Kpokpogri equally obtained the sum of eight millions from our client under false pretense. However, he has paid back the sum of six million but has refused, failed and/or neglected to pay the sum of two million outstanding,
Our client’s Toyota Hilus van bought in her name is also in the custody of Kpokpogri which he has refused to return despite several demands. By reason of the avove, we urge you to use your good office to cause a detailed investigation into the above facts with a view to bringing Josph Kpokpogri to book.
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