An Awka Magistrate court presided over by His Lordship, Mrs E.C Chukwu has ordered the forceful eviction of a single mother, Ndidi Nzelu from her father’s compound at 25 Enekwechi street, Ngodo village, Nose community, in Awka South LGA of Anambra State.
The court order obtained by Angel Network News (ANN) showed that the magistrate had on Friday, ordered Mrs Ndidi Nzelu to vacate her father’s compound to a rented apartment which the brothers claimed to have rented for her within the same community.
The court order read in part, “that by 6:pm on Sunday the 19th of April, 2026, the Defendant/Respondent and her belongings must not be found within No: 25 Enekwechi Avenue, Nise.”
Speaking to journalists in tears at her hospital bed at chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the victim, Mrs Ndidi Nzelu cried out over what she called “judicial high handedness” which seemed to have given a mark of approval to the hatchet plan by her brothers to throw her out of the apartment given to her by their father while alive.
The victim who was also involved in a ghastly auto crash on Sunday 19th April, 2026, alleged that his elder brother, chief Damian Enekwechi compromised the legal process to legitimise his evil plans to throw her out of their father’s house under the guise of renovating the family compound.
She lamented that all her properties and personal belongings have been thrown outside the gates of the family compound, to be damaged by the weather conditions.
Reacting to the development, counsel to the Mrs Nzelu, Mr. C. J Okoli-Akirika said that his law firm which is defending the victim on Pro Bono bases had earlier filed a motion for stay of proceedings on Thursday 16th April, 2026 at the Awka Magistrate court, as the same matter and parties were before the Anambra state High Court.
He further stated that the attention of the magistrates was duly brought to the pendency of the cases at High court, as well as the motion on notice to stay further proceedings on the matter, yet the court went ahead to issue an order of eviction.
He concluded that the manner at which the magistrate rushed to issue such order was unfair, unjust and inequitable; mentaining that order can not withstand the test of judicial review by the higher court.
Also speaking, a legal practitioner, Mr Ejiofo Umegbogu said it amounts to judicial rascality for any trial court to ignore a pending application in a matter before it and proceed to hearing, and deliver ruling the same day.
Mr Umegbogu explained that by issuing such order, the court have become functus Officio and can not seat on the matter again, yet, there is a pending application that has not been determined in the case.
He urged judicial officers to desist from such blanket orders that can bring them to disrepute and contempt in the eyes of the public.
As the time of this report, the personal belongings and properties of Mrs Ndidi Nzelu where seen scattered outside her family compound along Enekwechi Avenue; while Mrs Ndidi Nzelu is hospitalised at the Princeton Orthopaedic Hospital, Awka after a major bone surgery on her leg as a result of car accident.
ANN gathered that Chief Damian Enekwechi had since January this year explored every illegal means to eject his younger sister from the family compound, which seems to have received judicial approval which some analysts have described as a jundiced and compromised court order.
