Onitsha Traders Protest Restructuring Of Their Demolished Shops By Governor Obiano Agents

                
              Orji Kalu and market leaders in Onitsha  and traders    
 
odogwuemekaodogwu.com reports that traders occupying some shops at F, C and E lines, at Tools and Allied Products Dealers Market, popularly known as 'Carpenters Tools' Bridge Head Market Onitsha Saturday evening took to the streets of Fegge, Onitsha South Local Government Area Anambra State in protest against their alleged illegal ejection from their shops and restructuring of same by some claimants to the shops led Chief James Umezuruoha, Isaac Akubiro and Marcel Umehonejiaku and their group.

 
 
The aggrieved trade who displayed placards with inscriptions as ”Police in Anambra stop being partisan on issues in contention” “IGP Mohammed Save Nigeriap police from corrupt senior officers in the state” “Anambra State Judiciary, is the Judiciary still the last hope of common man’’? “Anambra State Chief Judge save the judiciary in the state from lack of confidence the masses have about it” 


Other placards the aggrieved traders had were writteen “Governor
Obiano, you have succeeded in eliminating violent criminals in the state, you have to look into intimidation and harassment of innocent traders by some people who believes that godfatherism is still fashionable in the state”


“NJC beam your search light on Anambra state to fish out corrupt judges who are bent on destroying the judiciary”. “When did it become legal for a contender who lost in the court for a property to do restructuring work unhindered in the same property"?
 


Spokesman of the traders Mr. Johnson Akabueze while addressing newsmen at Ziks Avenue shortly after the protest said "for the past 10 years they have
been occupying the shops and paying promptly to their landlord, but last two weeks we were forcefully ejected and our goods thrown out by unknown people suspected to be thugs hired against us by the group who are currently supervising
the restructuring of the shops.
 
 
The traders said that over 30 shops from where they were ejected and the office of their Chairman Chief Greg Chukwudi Ezechukwu are being restructured by their ejectors, while the police and the Judiciary who are aware of the matter has allowed those who ejected them to continue the current restructuring of the
shops.
 
 
The shops were built in 2003 and 2004 by Chief Greg Chukwudi Ezechukwu on Financier Builder Ownership agreement pursuant to a consent judgment which he entered into with the Onitsha South Council Area of the state in Suit 0/207/2003 whose parties were Greg Ezechukwu and Onitsha South Council Area, and the judgment is dated 3^rd February 2004, for which the LGA issued allocation papers to the said Greg Ezechukwu in respect of the said stores.
 
 
It will be recalled that the Sir Isaac Akubilo and three others had sued Chief Greg Ezechukwu and his company, Greg Commercials West African Limited on two occasions over ownership of the shops and the suits with No-0/173/2012 and Suit
No-0/530/2004 were dismissed and stroked out respectively, by the presiding Judge, Justice A Okuma in favour of Ezechukwu.
 
 
The traders accused  the of Police in Anambra State of  being partisan in the matter, by inviting the two parties involved in the case for a meeting and allowing one of the parties to start doing reconstruction work after ejecting them.
 
 
They also expressed disappointment that the Judiciary which gave two judgments in favor of their Chairman has decided to look into the matter again after the case was brought to court again on Fundamental right application, but has failed to
order those who forcefully ejected them to stop the restructuring of work they are currently doing in the shops until the matter is decided by the court.
 
 
When vanguard visited the market this morning reconstruction work is still going on and some shops without windows were being fixed with windows
while the gate of the shops were being expanded.
 
 
The traders expressed surprise that the judiciary which is currently handling the case cannot stop both parties from steeping into the shops to do any work
until the matter is decided, but allowed the one of the parties, the  Applicant to be restructuring the shops while the police has given the Respondent an order not to go close to the market.
 
 
The traders therefore, called on the Inspector General of Police Mr. Mohammed Abubakar to prevail on the Anambra State Commissioner of Police to order arrest the of the people that are doing the restructuring work in the shops, and those that sent them as nobody is above the law.
 

The traders warned that if their protest is ignored they will not be held responsible if any act of lawlessness that may lead to violence erupts in the market by next week as they will no longer be watching while their stores are being
destroyed.