13 Houses Partially Demolished In Land Reclamation In Enugu State

by Arinze Chijioke
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A total of 13 buildings were partially demolished in Enugu on Thursday, when an Enugu based architect, Jonathan Emejulu arrived at Airport Road Layout, Phase IV and V with earth-moving machines.

Mr. Emejulu told newsmen that he was executing an Enugu State High Court judgment that went in his favour over the ownership of the Layout.

The demotion was put to halt on Wednesday when the Enugu State Commissioner of Police; Ahmad Abdurrahman invited the contending parties and the Opposing Counsel Legal to the state command to interpret the court order to him.

The opposing counsel Legal had after studying the court documents, concluded that Emejulu had a genuine court order.

Consequently, the commission of police gave him the clearance to commence the demolition with a detachment of mobile and regular policemen.

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Mr. Emejulu, who arrived the layout with a truckload of mobile, regular policemen, and a bulldozer around 11 am on Thursday, commenced demolition without hindrance.

He said he would take over and demolish all the structures in the section of the land where the Enugu EN-power Free Trade Zone is sited; claiming that the sprawling land also belonged to him.

He insisted that he bought the layout containing more than 300 plots of land from Umuenwene Iji Nike community in Enugu East local government area of Enugu state in 2008 and that the property was gazetted by the state government before some people started laying claim and trespassing.

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He alleged that some individuals in the state, including the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Edward Ubosi; member Representing Enugu East/Isi-Uzo Federal Constituency, Cornelius Nnaji; and the State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Vitus Okechi were trying to use government power to wrestle the layout from him.

Emejulu claimed that they had entered the land and demolished more than 25 buildings he had built at the cost of N400 million two years ago.

“We are here to levy second execution on the property, on the layout. I got a court judgment in 2017, Enugu state High Court and the police ordered for an execution to be levied for me to reclaim my land, which I consequently did last year” he said.

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When contacted, Ubosi and Okechi alleged that Emejulu was parading fake court judgment, saying that he sued the wrong person who had entered consent judgment whereas the real owner of the land was still in court with him.

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