An Abuja-based Beauty Therapist, Ms Pamela Onyeagushi has been arraigned by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Competition & Consumer Protection Commission for causing grievous bodily harm to her client, Justice Zaynab Bashir and for Quackery.
In what appears to be an orchestrated blackmail and falsehood, the Therapist Ms Pamela Onyeagushi engaged in massive media publications to tarnish the image of the client who happens to be a Judge.
The judge being a law-abiding Nigerian reported the matter to the Consumers Protection Commission. While the matter was pending, Ms Pamela Onyeagushi engaged in massive media publications and blackmailing against the Judicial officer.
The internet was let loose in 2022 when it was reported that a therapist accused the judge of harassing and making life unbearable for her after the judge complained to the Consumer Protection Commission. The media cooked up the story on the side of making life unbearable without verifying if such an assertion was true.
It’s important to state that there is no law that prohibits a judicial officer from taking care of his/her health and body, and the judge knowing the danger the quack practice of the therapist would cause to society, reported the case at the Consumer Protection Commission for investigation so as to protect other innocent citizens.
In the true spirit of patriotism, the complainant approached the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission seeking amongst others that the defendant-Ms. Pamela Onyeagusi should be prosecuted on the basis of her quackery and reckless practice which has led to her causing grievous bodily harm to the Complainant who was an unsuspecting consumer that was lured by her fraudulent misrepresentation.
Likewise, the order of the commission to shut down the quackery practice of Ms. Pamela Onyeagusi so as to save the general public from the hazard of falling prey and for her to cause publication to be made in at least two national dailies, retracting all the false publication made about the Complainant while also tendering an unreserved apology to the Complainant, her family and the National Industrial Court, both for the injury inflicted on the Complainant and also the false and malicious publication made to defame her.
Further that the lawyer Adaeze who refused to honour the invitation extended to her by the Commission be cautioned and as a legal practitioner to henceforth refrain to take consumer/service provider disagreement to the press to blackmail either the consumer or the service provider particularly when it is already before the Commission and if possible refer her to the Legal Practitioner Disciplinary Committee for an act unbecoming of a legal practitioner.
During the adjudication of the matter at the consumer protection commission, the defendant- Ms Pamela admitted that she lacks the training and expertise required in the use of laser and any other medical equipment. That she only obtained a certificate in exposition to the science behind the equipment which is not tantamount to training on their usage and it is also instructive to know that it was a one-day ONLINE training.
She further admitted that the continued use of the said machines by Lotela Beauty under whatever disguise constitutes a grave danger to the unsuspecting members of the public and society at large.
Contrary to the information reported by the media, she admitted that not being a medical practitioner and therefore not qualified to carry out surgeries of any sort and that the complainant never came to her for any cosmetic surgery or any other surgical procedure whatsoever. Rather, the complainant visited her spa for a routine facial treatment during which she introduced her laser machine.
Ms Pamela stated before the commission that no threat was issued to her by the complainant and that she was instigated/misled by one top judicial officer she had approached to plead on her behalf to engage in media sympathy.
Ms. Pamela Onyeagusi admitted that she does not have a written document on safety guidelines and further that the Complainant stated that her facial skin is sensitive to such treatment yet she did nothing to assuage it pre/post and took no special or conscious effort to ameliorate it pre or post the procedure.
Ms. Pamela Onyeagusi admitted that she operates the procedure in the dining of her residential apartment without any regulatory and compliance approval for medical or commercial purposes, and in her admission to blackmail informed the panel that one Barr. Adaeze introduced her to a certain journalist for the purpose of the publication while admitting that what was published was not true as it was not what she told the journalist.
She also posited that the reportage in all the publications is not true reflection of what transpired or what she told the press, and there was no threat to her life by the judge she defamed and that she was only following the instructions of her sponsor.
Ms. Pamela was charged to court on a 4 counts charge at the Federal High Court Abuja by the Federal Government, but instead of availing herself the opportunity of being heard, she failed to show up in court after 3 consecutive adjournments.
Consequently, a bench warrant for her arrest was issued on the 23rd day of May 2023 and since then she has been on the run as all efforts to execute the warrant have proven abortive, and a visit to her house which also doubles as her spa, shows that the place is empty and deserted, a reliable source informed the police that she has fled the country.
