TIV YOUTH COUNCIL PETITIONS CHAIRMAN,ANIOCHA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL- Declared Chukwunonso Nwoko unfit to be a traditional ruler over his complicity in the killing of late Cyprian Kumaoron and Innocent Iloh.

The TIV Youth Council,Worldwide has petitioned the Chairman of Aniocha North Local Government Traditional Council in
Delta State over its planned conferment on one Chukwunonso Nwoko as the Obi of Idimuje-Ugboko Autonomous Area of Aniocha Local Government of Delta State.

In a press statement, Tiv Youth Council says her petition against Chukwunonso Nwoko is based on his involvement in the gruesome murder of two Nigerian citizens (Mr. Innocent Iloh And Mr. Cyprian Kumaoron) and therefore urges the local government council and the traditional institution to step down all pre existing and existing considerations to install and confer the staff of office of an Obi to Chukwunonso Nwoko in Idumuje-Ugboko Traditional Area of Delta State.


Tiv Youth Council urges all concerned to recall that on the 24th of May 2017, at about 10 AM,one Cyprian Kumaoron who at all material times was a commercial motorcyclist(Okada rider) in Idumuje-Ugboko village in Aniocha Local Government in Delta was abducted and gruesomely murdered with his body dismembered and taken to unidentified destination up till the time of this report.

It adds that the above matter was reported to the Nigerian Police by the father of the deceased,Mr. Moses Iorkase who is an indigene of Benue State.

It states that Police investigations and findings into the matter revealed that Chukwunonso Nwoko and others;viz:Chetachukwu Okolo Onyeisi Isuzor,Ifejoku Okey,Prince Ejimofor Nwoko,Prince Obiajulu Richard Nwoko,Emeka Onyebuno,Nwabunwanne Ndidi,Ikomoh,,Agiliga,Akunna and Ugo acting in concert with each other and with the role played by each person contributed to the killing of Mr. Cyprian Kumaoron.

According Tiv Youth Council, it suffices to mention also that one Innocent Iloh was equally murdered by above mentioned suspects in a similar manner that Mr. Cyprian Kumaoron was brutally killed.

The Tiv Youth Council wishes to establish that in line with the establishment of facts, witnesses and findings by the Nigeria Police, the above suspects are presently under police prosecution as charged for the offence of murder of Cyprian Kumaoron and punishable under section 324 of the Criminal Code Law Cap C. 21 Vol. 1 Laws of Delta State of Nigeria,2007.

It stresses that with all intents and purposes,it is her concerned and patriotic position that any individual who is charged with a capital offence such as the killing another human being ordinarily,carries on his head an offence against the state and should not hold any office of public trust until the determination of such a case by a competent court of jurisdiction.

It adds that its shared petition to the Chairman of Aniocha Local Government Council of Chiefs against one of the suspects(Prince Chukwunonso Nwoko) in the murder case of Mr. Cyprian Kumaoron and Mr. Innocent Iloh,is that by all standards of public trust,Prince Chukwunonso Nwoko can not occupy and should not be made the Obi of Idumuje-Ugboko,pending the final determination of the case of murder against him by a competent court of jurisdiction.

The Tiv Youth Council holds that this step is to guarantee public trust and confidence in the office of the traditional stool of Obi and to circumvent all forms of apprehensions and agitations arising from the gruesome killings of those innocent citizens of Nigeria.

According to it, deriving from the immediate above, it wishes to use this opportunity to impress on the office of the Chairman,Aniocha Traditional Council of Chiefs to suspends all pre-existing and existing considerations for the speculated conferment/award of staff of office to Prince Chukwunonso Nwoko as Obi of Idumuje-Ugboko pending the determination of the murder case against him by the police and the court.


It informes that this approach is to further protect the integrity,sanctity,trust and confidence of the people in the traditional stool of the Obi and the entire Delta State Traditional Council of Chiefs.

Signed:
Comr. Mike Mnsuan
President General,
Tiv Youth Council,Worldwide


5th August,2020