Tension In Nnewi Over Selling Of Nkwo-Nnewi Triangle As Igwe Orizu Battles Allegation

             

His Royal Highness, Igwe KO Orizu breaking the traditional kola nut at Nnewi High School during the Ofia olu 2014

  

          The traditional ruler of Nnewi community, Igwe Kenneth Orizu is embattled over allegation of selling Nkwo Nnewi Triangle reports odogwuemekaodogwu.blogspot.com.

Read Orient Daily’s report on that . The annual “Afia Olu festival celebrated by Nnewi indigenes to signify the end of farming season and mark the eating of new yam usually celebrated together by all the four quarters in Nnewi this year turned sour following allegations and accusations against some top notches of the town of selling the Nkwo Nnewi triangle to the state government where a shopping centre is now being constructed.

This necessitated the low keyed celebration of the festival this year as crisis has engulfed the once peaceful town.

    The Nkwo Nnewi triangle according to sources is the ancestral square where the Nnewi people gather to celebrate important functions hold meetings where important decisions concerning the welfare and future of Nnewi are taken.

    According to Orient Daily sources, following allegations and accusations of sell out of the Nkwo Nnewi triangle, the celebration of this year’s “Afia Olu” festival was shifted simultaneously to the four quarters that make up Nnewi town thus creating crisis and disaffection among the people.

     Orient Daily further gathered that because this year’s “Afia Olu” festival was not celebrated at a central place which is usually the Nkwo Nnewi triangle, the festival lost it’s glamour, pomp and pageantry as the federating four quarters of Nnewi chose to celebrate it on individual basis.

          His Royal Majesty, Igwe Dr. K.O.N. Orizu 111, (JP, CON) while breaking the traditional kola nut as well as delivery his message from the throne at the ceremony held at Nnewi High School play ground told Nnewi people that he did not know who gave out their united spot of land popularly called Nkwo-Triangle to Anambra State Government to build the shopping mall project.

          He regretted on the insinuation from certain quarters of Nnewi against him for plotting to sell out the piece of land which he described as totally false.

          According to him, “I returned from a trip abroad and learnt that Uruagu, Umudim and Nnewichi quarters have decided to celebrate the annual Afia-olu festival in their different quarters because of Government take over of Nkwo Triangle”.

          His Royal Highness, Igwe Orizu pleaded for peace to reign in the industrial town and declared that hence-forth the Afia-olu celebration should continue to take place at Nnewi High School till further notice.

          Our correspondent visited Uruagu, Umudim and Nnewichi and found out that the event was happily celebrated in the palaces of Obi Uruagu, Obi Umudim and Obi Nnewichi with the Highnesses Obi A.C. Obi (Ogidi); Obi B.C. Okafor (Ama-ukwu); Obi G. Onyekaba (Obidiugwu) on their respective thrones.

          Orient daily gathered from all the quarters of Nnewi that nobody knew who sold or gave out Nkwo-Triangle to Anambra State Government to build the shopping mall at the centre of the town. Who did it? The question is from every Nnewi indigene.