By Bayo Davids
A Justice of the Upper Area Court, Kubwa, Abuja, Zaynab Bashir has been accused of high-handedness, power abuse and sundry ills over alleged treatment of a skincare therapist, Pamela Onyeagusi whose bank accounts have been frozen on the influence of the judge.
Pamela, a single mother of three young children who made the allegations in an interview with PointBlankNews.com said the learned judge by doing so is bent on abusing her powers as has become common in Nigeria.
In a letter by the Interpol by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abbas Sule dated August 27, 2023 and addressed to the Manager, First Bank, Abuja, Pamela has had about seven personal and business accounts frozen, in what the secret police explained as part of investigating “A case of alleged cyber stalking.”
Added to this is a warrant of arrest published in a special police gazette, all making it difficult for Pamela to live a normal life devoid of fear and intimidation.
Narrating her ordeal to our correspondent, she said, “My name is Pamela Onyeagusi and I am a skin care therapist and a PMU/SPMU makeup artist, a single mom of 3 children, who strives daily and solely to cater for my children without any support. My oldest child is aged 6 years old and the younger ones are infant twins.
“For the past couple of years, I have been striving to survive with my family through the hardship of Nigeria’s economy while minding my business until sometime last year, when Justice Zaynab came to my place, precisely on the 7th of May 2022 for me to do some cosmetic work on her
“I refused to work on her that day. She left and came back the next day being the 8th of May 2022, inquiring about any other cosmetic work I can do on her. I suggested doing facials for her and she accepted the suggestion. While doing her facials, she informed me she was famished and pleaded for me to have one of my staff members fry egg for her as I was working from my home. As my present customer, I consented to her request and the egg was prepared for her.
“I asked her if an egg would be enough to satisfy her? She answered that it would because having done a weight loss surgery (gastric sleeve surgery), she was certain that one egg was enough for her. My curiosity got the best of me and at that point, she told me about her doctor in America, and I told her about my client who did the same surgery and I assisted her with her surgery scars.
“I then told her I wanted to do the surgery too but I became apprehensive when Justice Zaynab rolled out the list of prohibitions I will have to adhere to after the surgery. She encouraged me not to be afraid and I confided in her about my intention to reduce my butt and she committed to introducing me to her Doctor in America and also told me his name. She further began to list all the surgeries she had done which including Back Liposuction (to remove fat from her back),
Gastric sleeve (weight loss surgery),
Tummy tuck (removal of the excess skin in her belly), BBL (making her Bombom bigger) and her intention to do lipo of the tummy (to make her tummy flatter) and thigh lift ( to remove the extra skin from her thigh because of weight lost and sagging).”
Back to the service she came for, Pamela continued, ” At the end of her session, she was happy with my service and I was happy with her as a client and it was at this point that she asked if I can remove the growth (skin tags) in between her thighs.
“I refused because of how painful the procedure will be, which I clearly communicated to her. However, she insisted, I reiterated how painful it will be to her especially on her thighs. She said if she could bear Lipo pain, she could bear any type of pain. And it was at that point I accepted her request.
“After working on her, she was satisfied and paid me my money. After the procedure, she traveled the next day, which I strongly advised against, as she needed time for her skin to recover from the procedure. But she insisted she needed to go and work. This treatment ended up turning into a wound because she didn’t keep to my instruction, and since then, she has been making my life a living hell, with all sorts of threats to my life and harassment.
“First, she requested for refund of the money she paid for the procedure, which I paid back to her. I didn’t hear from her again till September 2022, when I called to check up on her. She became very angry as to why I called her and promised to visit me.
“She came a few days later and threatened to send someone to kill me, or make sure she sends me to prison or send the Department of State Services to pick me up and deal with me. She even bragged about her contact with the Director of DSS and that both the DSS and Police are at her disposal.
“Subsequently, she sent a letter to me demanding compensation, I reached out to some Judges and senior lawyers to plead on my behalf but she blatantly refused all their pleas. She claimed that I damaged her thighs and that her doctor is charging her $10,000 dollars to fix her thighs excluding her hotel accommodation, and flight tickets.
“She swore to close down my business, and on the advice of one of the judges pleading on my behalf, I responded to her letter. My response only served to infuriate her as the woman who introduced her to me called and was threatening me. She also came by herself to my place with armed police men twice to follow up with her threat.
She further took the matter up with the Consumer Protection Council who invited us for a discussion. She sent 15 lawyers and two Senior Advocates of Nigeria to represent her as she didn’t personally honour the invitation.
“Her team of lawyers and SANs grilled me for endless hours but I maintained my position on the matter. The consumer protection people said I would hear from them afterward.
“In February 2023, two days before the election, the Consumer Protection Council in the company of armed policemen and lawyers sent by Zaynab visited my Abuja residence in my absence once again, threw everyone in my home outside including my six years old child and my infant children and sealed my home leaving my children exposed.
“My six-year-old child has been traumatized to the point that it is negatively impacting her mental health. Presently, she is seeing a doctor for her condition.
“They have further charged me to court for misrepresenting myself as a medical personnel which I did not do at any point in time. She said she is well connected and that they run the courts and will make sure they jail me,” she added.
