Anambra State House of Assembly has ordered for the arrest of the President General of Ifite Nteje, for failing to appear before the Committee on Public Petition, to answer all the fraudulent activities against him.
Angel Network News (ANN) reports that
the resolution was made following the consideration of report of the House Committee on Public Petitions on the petition titled “Notice of illicit practice on land capable of causing communial crisis, an act which the state Assembly has legislated against.
Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Chukwuma Okoye who presided over plenary on Tuesday ruled that the recommendation be adopted as a working document.
The Chairman House Committee on Public Petitions, Hon. Obi Nweke in his
submissions said the petitioners are Chinedu Stanley Uzo and Obinna Henry Emenogu while the respondents is the people of Ifite Nteje Community (President General)
According to Hon. Nweke, the President General of Ifite Nteje sold five hundred (500) plots of land to the petitioners and got all the members of his executive to sign, after which the property was registered and part of the payments paid which made them (Petitioners) the legitimate owners of the land.
” It was letter discovered that the President General also sold the same land to another person.
” The Committee invited all the parties involved but the President General failed to honour the invitation. His executive came and affarmed that they signed the document.
” With all this facts, the Committee on petition through its recommendations,
ruled that the Petitioners be allowed to take possission of the 500 plots of land acquired from the respondents with immediate effect.
” That the Petitioners are hereby directed to go into possession and start erecting
perimeter fencing to demarcate their property from others and the respondent should stay off that property.
” That Government is enjoyed to deploy all the coercive apparatuses such as Ocha Brigade, state Anti-tout Squad, Nigeria Police to proceed against any person
molesting and preventing the Petitioners from taking possession of the land especially one tout called Edu Baron.
” It is recommended that the President General of Ifite Nteje be arrested and Prosecuted in line with the amended law of Anambra State prohibiting illegal dealings on land as he refused, failed and neglected to appear before the committee to answer all the fraudulent activities of his towards the land in question”. Hon. Nweke explained.
