“We laughed because we knew that Oye Abba is a small market inside Abba community.” Nigeria LandDispute Abba Ukpo AnambraState
That exercise changed things; while Abba was allocated to Njikoka council, the neighbouring Ukpo went to Dunukofia, with Ukpo as the headquarters of the council.
‘Agu Abba,’ which Abba community believes is their inheritance, has been awarded to Ukpo community by the court. And hell may soon be let loose. President-General of Ukpo Town Development, Chief Onyiliagu Vincent, said the demolition followed an execution order obtained in April this year from the Anambra High Court, after the Supreme Court judgment on the matter on February 15.
Onyiliagu added that, not satisfied with the position of the Appeal court, the Abba Community headed to the Supreme Court, where on February 15, this year, the matter was “dismissed.” He said the Court resolved all the four issues formulated for determination of the appeal against the appellants and ordered that they pay N5000, 000 as cost to the respondents for prosecuting the appeal.
It was gathered that proceedings at the lower court upon where the judgment was drawn got missing, encumbering efforts of Abba community to escalate the matter at appeal. Efforts made to recover the documents were unsuccessful. The petition, signed by Anaekwe, reads in part, “Constrained by the recent steps by Ukpo community to provoke and promote disaffection as well as inter-communal conflict between the Ukpo and Abba communities, I write to, on behalf of Abba community of Njikoka Local Government Area, bring a formal report and complaint for your records and expected necessary action.
“In the night of Saturday, 20th July, 2019, all signposts bearing the name “Abba” at and around Abba junction were pulled down, destroyed and taken away.” Anaekwe continued: “Then, there was a judgment given by Justice Nwazota in 1999 in favour of Ukpo and Ukwulu communities. We got stay of execution on that judgment and we wanted to appeal that judgment. The proceedings from that judgment went missing from the court up till today. There was a panel set up by the Anambra state judiciary then, headed by Justice Obidigbo, who said that the proceedings could not be found.
“Go and read that document and understand that what they are trying to do was to twist history. Their Monarch said the truth above their origin. They are not the original settlers in the area. They continued to hang onto the court to buy time and cause more damage. That is the aspect we decided to trash once and for all.”
Police Public Relations Officer in Anambra state, Haruna Mohammed, told The Guardian that the police only complied with an order of the Supreme Court in ensuring that a bailiff, who was executing the order, was protected to perform his duties. He stated that Arthur had called several meetings to settle amicably the land issue to no avail, adding that in one of the meetings, after the Supreme Court verdict, he suggested that the land be shared into three so that each of the communities will have something to go with.
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