LAND GRABBERS IN ABIA GOVERNMENT HOUSE, INTIMIDATE, ABDUCT AND TORTURE ABIA CITIZENS TO TAKE THEIR LEGITIMATE LANDS…………….IKECHUKWU MBAKWE.
An Abia based businessman, Mr Ikechukwu Mbakwe has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr Ibrahim Idris, pleading that he should intervene to save his life from the hands of a clique of Land Grabbers in Abia state Government House, who specializes in using instruments of Government to fleece innocent citizens of their legally acquired landed property.
In a petition he captioned “Conspiracy , Hostage taking, Assault, Attempted murder, and Conducts likely to cause breach of peace, written through his lawyers, Maryann Ojinaka & Co, Legal Practitioners, Mbakwe, listed the names his assailants and requested the IGP to promptly call them to order before they kill him.
He narrated how they bundled him with his workers into two Hilux vans, on Monday, June 5, 2017, drove them to Abia Government House and gave them the beatings of their lives over two landed properties he said he genuinely acquired from Abia state Estate Development Agency ABSEDA, Wherein relevant and genuine documents were issued him in respect of them.
Mbakwe, who is now lying critically ill in an undisclosed hospital, over the ill-treatment meted out to him explained that his assailants conspired to abduct and manhandle him and his workers and held them hostage for one night together with his Toyota Thundra marked AGN 57AA which was released after four days.
“While we were in their custody, they were bragging that they work for the Governor and the current DIG, Mr Habilla,who was once a CP in Abia state is their friend, and that even if the case goes to Abuja, nothing will come out of it as they are “the ones that are running the state”.
“Our fear now is that since these men hold various positions in Government, ranging from “Deputy Chief of staff, UCDA Managing Director, Acting General Manager, and Deputy Chairman of a Local Government Council” respectively, they may carry out their threats of eliminating me”, Mbakwe cried out.
Contributing to his plea, his lawyers urged the IGP to use his revered office to cause an immediate, but discreet investigation of the matter, with the aim of ensuring that justice is done.
According to Mbakwe since after his experience in the hands of his assailants, he has been noticing clandestine movements around him where ever he goes, and as of now , he is afraid of his life as there are strong indications that his assailants are after him.
Mbakwe who narrated his story from a hiding place said that his assailants picks him up at the slightest opportunity and “ torture me to their delight just to make me denounce the ownership of the properties I genuinely acquired .
“I lived in Lagos, where I was doing the business of machinery hiring, leasing and construction work. When Government made a call that Abia Indigenes should come home to invest, I answered the call by coming home to invest. But what I am experiencing today is worst that the kind of racism that exist in most countries of the west.”
Explaining the genesis of the problem, he said, “I bought two plots of land at Umuobia Housing , Olokoro in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia state from Abia state Estate Development Agency(ABSEDA), formerly called PIU in 2016 when it was being managed by late Mr Felix Ibelegbu, the then General Manager.
“ The site though was not attractive as it appeared to be inhabitable due to the topography of the land, but as someone in construction industry, I knew what to do to make the land attractive. The transaction was carried out as all the necessary documents were signed by both party and allocation papers issued me as the
