PUBLIC NOTICE/DISCLAIMER 11/01/2020

It has come to my notice, a purported ‘Press Release’ attributed to one Sebastian Okafor, masquerading as ‘Chairman NUJ South East Elders Forum’ wherein he dabbled into affairs relating to the recent demolition of the fence of the Press Center of NUJ Enugu State Council.
Okafor, also in the same release, as published in Reformist online of January 10, 2020, made spurious allegation against the leadership of NUJ, particularly, our National President, Chief Chris Isiguzo, alleging that he collected N25 million from alleged sale of NUJ land donated to Enugu council in 1971 by the state government.

The Zonal Leadership of Zone C (South East) of NUJ does not wish to join issues with regard to unfounded claims made in the said release by Okafor, who, obviously for ‘stomach infrastructure’, equally assumed the devil’s advocate of Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority (ECTDA); as such criminal allegations would be addressed at the appropriate time.

The Zonal leadership under my watch wishes however to make the following categorical statements:
1. There is no body or group known to the Zone as ‘NUJ SOUTH EAST ELDERS FORUM’. It is therefore an illegal/criminal and ad-hoc creation of criminal minded individuals as a platform to carry out hatchet jobs and extort money from unsuspecting public.

2. That the Zonal Executive Committee of the Union Zone C, whether when I served as Zonal Secretary or presently as Acting Vice President, had at no time met to deliberate on or set up such a body which is unknown to NUJ Constitution.

3. That the only Zonal Executive Committee meeting of the Union held so far since the emergence of the current leadership on October 4, 2018, was the one held in Abakaliki the Ebonyi State Capital on December 5, 2019, which I presided over.

4. That Sebastian Okafor is a charlatan of the highest order, and is hereby sternly warned to desist further from parading himself and/or issuing statement under any guise connoting NUJ South East. Okafor will be arrested and prosecuted by the law enforcement agents should he ignore this warning and issue further statement under such guise.

5. The general public is hereby advised to discountenance Okafor and his statement, as he is of no consequence what so ever.
Sincerely yours.

Comrade Kenneth Ofoma
Acting Vice President, NUJ Zone C