News C/River Traditional Rulers Defend Community Lawyer Over Alleged N21m Fraud
“What he auctioned were only movable items from the said plant which worth about N4,150,000 and handed the money to the community which is being ploughed in execution of a town council project. The only money we gave to Okim was his legal fee.“We just can’t explain where this spurious allegation is coming from, our lawyer is the one who has been assisting us to resolve various community issues and at no point had we found him wanting. All we seek for is peace and not trouble,” the monarch said.
Also speaking, community Head Chief, Ntui Ojong Nyambi, stated that the allegation by the aggrieved environmentalist, Prince Odey Oyama, may have been generated to malign the community’s lawyer, Barr. Okim, with the erroneous belief that the lawyer was the one who advised the monarchs to publish a disclaimer regarding ownership of power of attorney on community forest against Oyama.“Let me state categorically here that at no time did Barr.
He added that part of what angered the community chiefs against Prince Oyama was the expectation by Oyama that the community chiefs should have tendered a written apology letter to him regarding the disclaimer letter, which they sent to the Cross State government when ordinarily Oyama should have known that in Effi culture, chiefs don’t beg thier subjects, instead they have other cultural ways of appeasing Oyama rather than tendering public apology.
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