Former Governor of Enugu State not above the law, must pay for demolishing my house – Arc J.J Emejulu



Enugu Airport Road Layout Phase IV and V has become under contention since its ownership was first challenged in 2015. Since then Arc J.J Emejulu who bought the land from its former owners, Umuenwene Iji Nike Communities has gone through tough times to keep his property.
In this interview with journalists he narrates his ordeals and persecutions including demolition of his house in the course of the land tussle pointing accusing fingers at former Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
Q: Arc J.J Emejulu, can you in brief tell us all you know about Airport Road Layout Phase IV and V?
ARC EMEJULU: These two Layouts were bought from Umuenwene Iji Nike
Community in 2008 by me.
In the year 2015, Mr. Cornelius Nnaji, then Chairman of Enugu East Local
Government Area claimed that Airport Road Layout Phase IV and V were wrongly sold to me by Umuenwene Community; that the land belongs to Umuchigbo community.
The two communities went to court and came out with a judgment that affirmed Umuenwene Community as the rightful owners and that the layouts belong
to me. This was my first judgment on the layout in Suit No. E/247/2015 by Justice
R.O. Odugu.
Not satisfied with this judgment, Hon. Cornelius Nnaji and Hon Edward Ubosi
brought in the State Government into it and some of Governor Ugwuanyi’s
Commissioners entered the layout and started selling and building houses forcefully and demolished 25 duplexes nearing completion claiming that I was building on Enugu State Government land. I reported the sale of many plots to EFCC Enugu and all those community members that sold the land to me were all invited by EFCC including Igwe Julius Nnaji, Hon Cornelius Nnaji and Hon. Edward Ubosi. After a thorough investigation, EFCC came up with a report that the layouts belongs to me.
For the malicious damage of my 25 duplexes by Enugu State Government
functionaries including Hon. Cornelius Nnaji and Hon. Edward Ubosi, I took the
case to Police Force CID, Zone 10, Abuja. They claimed that the land was Enugu
State Government land, so Governor Ugwuanyi went there and commissioned free trade zone, all in a joint bid to wrestle the land from me. They camped two armed policemen there and brought one Empower Energy Ltd as a contractor and even issued him a C of O on the land. Abuja police came up with their report that the layouts belonged to me and the IGP then sent his men and flushed out the resident police men on my land.
In 2015, all the people that bought land from me took me to court for selling
Government property to them. The issues were properly ventilated upon, official gazette of Enugu State published in 24th April 2014 confirming that they were known layouts by Enugu State Government and they were tendered also, a consent judgment was then reached that the layouts belonged to Arc. J.J Emejulu and that at no time was it a property of Enugu State Government. Enugu State High Court executed the judgment and issued me with a Certificate of Possession.
Yet, former Governor Ugwuanyi went to the same layouts and started erecting a concrete fence wall with his personal contractor claiming that the land now belonged to Enugu Airport, I took out a suit against Enugu State Commissioner of police and Inspector General of Police and on 3rd day of June 2020, an order of mandamus compelling the police to arrest and prosecute any trespasser(s). I moved to the layout with over seventy armed police men to throw
out all the illegal occupants and demolished the fence wall. But Former Governor Ugwuanyi brought in Air Force men with armed thugs and resisted my complete take over of my layout. He even invited the Aviation Minister the next day to give people the impression that he was defending airport property.
On the same day over seventy policemen were prevented from executing the order
of mandamus, he moved to my private residence in another end of Enugu, Trans Ekulu with over twenty vehicles loaded with thugs to “kill” me and demolish my two buildings. He met my childhood friend, Arc. Paul Ezeh who served with him in National Assembly and told him that he must “deal” with me and demolish my two buildings for having the effrontery to demolish airport fence. I narrowly by special grace of God escaped being killed.
The next day
his men came with heavy equipment and demolished my two palatial buildings
without my going out with even a pin. All documents, furniture and art works were
crushed the same day. I am a known Art collector for over thirty years (30 years),
buying art works from different international art exhibitions in the world. I lost over N6,000,000,000 (Six Billion Naira) worth of the paintings.
Hon. Cornelius Nnaji that brought in Hon. Ugwuanyi in my land seeing that God
was on my side, went to Enugu State High Court, Justice C.C Anih’s Court with his siblings including Igwe Julius Nnaji to nullify my court judgment with a motion
exparte claiming that what Umuenwene community sold to me was their immediate family land and never Umuenwene community land.
Hon. Cornelius Nnaji has been the master planner of the bid to take what belongs to me.
* He brought in former Governor Ugwuanyi first time to my land claiming that my security men were kidnappers when he was the Chairman of Enugu East L.G.A. The former Governor Ugwuanyi went to my site and arrested all my security men and declared me the chief sponsor of the so-called kidnappers.
* As Chairman of Enugu East, he was the person that made Umuenwene Iji,
Nike community go to court against Umuchigbo community for claiming that
the layouts belong to Umuchigbo instead of Umuenwene.
*Hon. Cornelius Nnaji brought the idea of my layout being designated as a Free
Trade Zone and single handedly brought in Empower Energy Ltd and made
Enugu State Government issue him with a C of O.
*He was the person that insisted that my second building and my giant statue
of Virgin Mary that was very close to my gate were equally demolished.
*It was this same “evil genius” Cornelius Nnaji that brought in Ugwuanyi and Edward Ubosi into the matter for I had settled with Hon. Ugwuanyi when I
gave him 20 plots of land which he accepted. He convinced Ugwuanyi to take the whole layouts.
Information
The lawyer representing those that bought land from Arc J.J Emejulu
In airport road layout, Phase IV and V
*IGP ANNEX Enugu is conducting an investigation on the sale of plots
of land to some people by Arc. J.J Emejulu.
*All affected should report to IGP ANNEX, (Police College, Agbani
Road Enugu) with their documents and Proof of Payments to any bank
before the end of October 2023.
*You can send your lawyer with the land documents or send direct to the
Police Officer in charge IPO.
Phone No. 09161238080 (Police IPO)
Or go through the lawyer that represents those that bought land from Arc J.J Emejulu who will in turn take them to the IPO.
(Lawyers No. 08038993133)

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