Indigenes of Umunenweze Okpualla community, Okaiuga Nkwoegwu, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, have accused their traditional ruler, Eze Paul Uzuegbu, and village head, Ejikeme Emereuwa, of illegally encroaching on, selling and donating ancestral land despite a 2022 court judgment nullifying Uzuegbu’s Ezeship.
This is as the traditional ruler said he had appealed the judgment that removed him from the throne and denied the allegations of land grabbing.
Speaking through a communiqué during a protest at the Government House in Umuahia on Wednesday, the spokesman for the indigenes, Mr Okechukwu Uzuegbu, described the actions as “brazen lawlessness, impunity, and daylight robbery.”
He said the community’s executives, elders, landowners and residents viewed the actions as “brazen lawlessness, impunity, and daylight robbery.”
The community also referenced Suit No. HU/59/2015, in which Justice O.A. Chijioke, on March 8, 2022, reportedly declared Eze Uzuegbu’s Ezeship “null and void.”
