WHO IS DEMOLISHING BUILDINGS IN ONITSHA SPORTS CLUB IN DISREGARD OF VALID COURT ORDER?
In order to avert blood bath and put an end to acts capable of escalating mayhem, Justice S.N. Odili of the High Court of Anambra State, on the 17th day of January, 2025 gave an order of Interlocutory Injunction restraining the Okposieke family of Ogolieke village in Onitsha Anambra State from further demolishing or destroying properties belonging to ONITSHA SPORTS CLUB.
Several months after that order, arising from suit no 0/277/2024 (Incorporated Trustees of Onitsha Sports Club & 3 Ors. v Harold Ekwerekwu & 4 Ors; no day has passed without intense intimidation, harassment and varying forms of violation of the court order.
How long will members of Onitsha Sports Club live in perpetual fear? Who will alert the appropriate authorities that the "police"vans and several thugs deployed at the Sports Club are illegal and their activities repugnant ro natural justice? Is it when those acts result in major conflagration that the proper thing would be done? Who will bell the cat?
What is even more disturbing is that members of the prestigious ONITSHA SPORTS CLUB are being chased away from their premises in the most inhumane manner with men on "police" uniform. On the 29th of December, 2025; against order of court, the party with hybrid conmection was seen erecting structures wihin the premises of ONITSHA SPORTS CLUB while heavily armed "policemen" supervised this impunity.
If a land is in dispute and. parties have approached the courts for declaration/determination of title, why would a party who claims being connected to the powers that be resort to self help?
For the avoidance of doubt, these are the exact words of Justice S.N. Odili while granting the application by Onitsha Sports Club restraining the Okposieke family from demolishing or destroying properties within the Onitsha Sports Club:
"I have weighed the competing interests of parties in the suit, and it is my humble view that balance of convenience favours granting the application. Consequently, I hold that the application is meritorious. It is accordingly granted.
The defendants, jointly and severally, their agents, servants, privies and workmen are hereby restrained from destroying or demolishing the plaintiff's properties on the land in dispute, situate at Egerton Road, Government Residential Area Onitsha, Anambra State..."
Per S.N. Odili
17/1/25
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Charles Chukwuma Soludo
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