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Communal Dispute: Enugu community demands end to media trial
The people of Obeagu Ugwuaji Autonomous Community in Enugu South Council Area of Enugu State have called for an end to unnecessary tension in the area.
Track News reports that the leadership of Isi-Agu Development Union had accused the traditional ruler of Obeagu Autonomous Community, Igwe Christopher Ikenga of trying to unlawfully take over their ancestral land and heritage.
Executive Committee members of the Town Union had alleged that Igwe Ikenga is using his son, a serving Senior police officer, to harass and intimidate them out of their ancestral land, which they inherited from their ancestors.
Chairman of Isi-Agu, Ugwuaji Development Union, (UDU), Chief Okwudili Ani, alongside the Secretary, Joseph Onuh, former Chairman, Solomon Ugwu, and other past leaders, made the allegations.
However, in a reaction, the people of Obeagu Ugwuaji Autonomous Community, deplored what they described as a “media trial” against their traditional ruler, HRH Igwe Christopher Ikenga and his police son, Tochukwu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police.
In a statement signed by Chief Edwin Nyia, the Secretary of Obeagu Ugwuaji palace, the community stated that, “the report of land grabbing, torture, intimidation, arrest and harassment by persons HRH Igwe Ikenga is false, malicious, an attempt to tarnish the image of the royal family and prejudicial to the justice system anywhere in the world. We would advise that the general public be well guided
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