No fewer than 30 lawyers have indicated their willingness to challenge the demolition of the Upper Class Hotel, Onitsha, owned by Chief Bonaventure Mokwe, on the orders of the Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi.

The governor last Friday ordered the demolition following the discovery of two human heads and some firearms in the hotel, located at the Old Market Road, Onitsha, last Thursday.

The lawyers, in their separate petitions to the Inspector-General of Police and the Commissioner of Police, Anambra State, described the demolition as “hasty and a display of jungle justice.”

Leading the lawyers were Dr. M. Umenweke and F. Ibeh.

The lawyers, who said Mokwe was known in Onitsha, added that there was no proper investigation before the demolition took place.

They said they would approach the High Court in Onitsha on Monday (today) to enforce Mokwe’s fundamental rights as guaranteed by law.

In one of the petitions entitled, ‘A trump up allegation against Chief Bonaventure Mokwe,’ Kachi Bielu and Co. appealed to the police leadership to organise a full scale investigation into the matter in order to unravel the persons behind the “frame up” against their client.

It read, “It is our instruction to appeal to you to use your good offices to send a crack team from the Force Criminal Investigation Department or the monitoring unit and transfer the case to a police formation, where the case will be properly handled and investigated.”

Also, Umenweke and Ibeh, leading over 30 other lawyers, described as stage-managed the “arrest, detention and humiliation” of Mokwe.

The lawyers alleged that some people “smuggled” the human skulls into the premises in order to incriminate the hotel proprietor.

They further demanded to know who made the complaint to the police and why government should demolish the hotel, which they said was Mokwe’s only evidence.

Source Punch- http://www.punchng.com/news/30-lawyers-set-to-battle-anambra-gov/

Question - Is the governor right to have demolition the hotel with 24 hours without any court order ?

Nigeria governors are their love for jungle justice..
why would a learned governor demolish a building without any investigation?

even if the accused is guilty,wouldnt it have been proper if the government takes over the ownership of the building than bringing it down?

so much for our educated illiterate leaders.

Brainless governor

Sometimes, I wonder what some of these our leaders studied in school. How can our governor do such a thing without carrying out proper and effective investigation?
No wonder some of these our leaders rarely talk when jungle justice is carried out.

SMH

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I am thankful that this hotel is owned by indigenes. If it was owned by someone else, we might have had another tribal war on our hands.

Instead of demolition why not sell off or auction the property, that's to prove presence of hate. Our leaders are very hasty making laws affecting citizens but the ones concerning dem are either abandoned or going tru 12th reading.