A retired Assistant Controller General of Immigration, Mr Okey Ezugwu has sued the Nigerian Army for N100 million damages over an alleged use of its personnel to violate his fundamental human rights.
The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has decried the demolition of its Engineering Centre by Governor Peter Mbah’s administration in Enugu State. The state chapter of NSE said the multi-million-naira property was allocated to it by the administration of former governor Sullivan Chime and that it had paid and fulfilled all the conditions for the allocation of the landed property before it commenced development.
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has suspended the operations of the State Capital Territory Development Authority (ECTDA). The suspension which he said takes effective Wednesday, August 2, 2023, is coming barely two weeks after the governor illegally deployed the authority to demolished multi-million naira property belonging to retired Assistant Controller General of Immigration, Chief Okey Ezugwu and that of the state Secretariat of Nigerian Society of Engineering (NSE).
The Governor Peter Mbah-led Enugu State government has demolished a building belonging to Barrister Okey Ezugwu, a retired Assistant Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Service in a manner described by many witnesses as “land grabbing” by the authorities. SaharaReporters reliably gathered that the land located in Independence Layout was allocated to Ezugwu by former Governor Sullivan Chime and subsequently issued with a certificate of occupancy (C of O) in 2014.
Barrister Okey Ezugwu, a retired Assistant Controller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has written to Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State, detailing how the state government allocated Plot 23CD at Independence Layout, Enugu to him 10 years ago. The same property was demolished by the government this week. Ezugwu had fully developed the property before the Secretary to the State Government, Prof Chidiebere Onyia ordered its demolition despite the pendency of the matter in court.