When Oche Ogbu filed a motion before Justice T. A Kume of High Court 6, Makurdi, Benue State, seeking to be substituted in a lawsuit by Makpo Oche Ogbu, his late father, he hoped to rest the dusts surrounding a July 9, 1999 judgment in favour of his father. But Samuel Ortom, the governor of the state, was casting a key into the work of justice.

Late Ogbu and Gooasu Company Ltd., his tenant, had in 1988 struggled in the court of law with Ibrahim Yakamata over plot 694, a property situated at no. 18, Old Otukpo Road (now known as Abudlahi Shelleng Road), Makurdi, Benue State.

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