LAND DISPUTE: GROUPS PETITION IG OVER SQUAD HARASSMENT........WANTS AC REMOVED

Police IG

By Aphonsus Nwaeze
The Inspector General of Police (IG), Ibrahim Idris,  has been urged to  remove one of his Commanders in charge of IG  Special Squad in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,  Mr. Ben Igwe, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), for allegedly compromising  his official position by meddling into Oba land dispute.

In a joint  press conference during the weekend by the Anambra Democratic Vanguard (ADV), Oba Women Development Front (OWDF) and Oba Land Dispute Resolution Groups (OLDR),  they demanded to know whether the membership of IG Special Squad gave a Police officer the powers to come all the way from Porthacourt, Rivers State to  intimidate and arrest people in Anambra State over land dispute.

According to the spokesman of the groups, Chief Kenechukwu Ojukwu, one Chuba Oranusi, the President-General of Ogwugwu village and Ifeanyi Nkemdilim, the President-General of Isu village both in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State have been using Igwe to harass, intimidate and arrest the Aboji Akanano indigenes over land dispute between them.

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N1 MILLION BURIAL LEVY, LAUGHABLE - IGWE OKONWO ETUSI

Igwe MUN Okonkwo Etusi

By Alphonsus Nweze
The Eziowelle community in Idemili North Local Government Area  of Anambra State has described as " laughable and false" the allegation that the community collects one million naira to bury the dead in their place.

Speaking to newsmen yesterday in the Igwe 's Palace  both the traditional ruler, Igwe Michael  Okonkwo Etusi and the President General, Hon.Titus. N Akpudo, said the allegation that the community collects one million naira  before they bury deaf person was not only false but still part of  campaign  of calumny against the winners of the election of new executives of the community held last weekend.

Igwe  OKONKWO ETUSI who expressed shock at the level of mischief of some people in the community just because they wanted power at all cost said the only levy paid in the community by the relations of the dead  was the N3,000 annual development and security levy if the person was owing it before  his  death. He emphatically stated that clearance for public functions in Eziowelle starts from EIU branches and Age Grades level before getting to the EIU National Secretariat for final clearance.

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