…Oyibode, Udu Monarch Urged To Intervene
By Sunday Apah
Crisis is currently looming in Orhuwhorun town, Udu Local Government Area, following the alleged illegal sale of Orhia land by a serving Councilor, Hon. ThankGod Agolokigho, HRH Ighohwo Takerere, Chief Moses Bokor and Chief Apine Layer.
It would be recalled that Hon. ThankGod Agolokigho, HRH Ighohwo Takerere, Chief Moses Bokor, Chief Apine Layer, VIC Land & Property Limited, and others have been summoned to the High Court of Justice, Oror-Udu, in suit No: OUHC/208/2025 by Pa Jude Rewa Okolosi, Mr. Ator Okolosi for Uterhi gate of the Ekrekun family; Pa Dodor Chabor, Mr. Friday Ovedje for themselves and on behalf of Atare gate of the Ekrekun family; Mr. Ochuko Jeroh, the Oghwuvwie of Ekrekun for himself and on behalf of Ovuokporho/Okporho gate of the Ekrekun family; and Mr. Jonathan Arutare for himself and on behalf of Umurhieri of the Ekrekun family as claimants.
They claimed in the suit that Hon. ThankGod Agolokigho, HRH Ighohwo Takerere, Chief Moses Bokor, and Chief Apine Layer, the defendants, suddenly broke into and entered the land without consent or permission from the claimants and sold the same to VIC Land & Property Limited, the 6th defendant.
According to the suit, the four sub-families of the Ekrekun family/quarter in Orhuwhorun are entitled to the customary ownership of the particular portion of land in dispute and/or the large tract of land comprising the entire Orhia/Urhude/Urhode Bush/farmland situate and being at Orhuwhorun Town in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, a place well known to the defendants in this suit.
The claims include: – “An order nullifying whatever purported sales and/or transfers by the defendants to third parties, as the same are void ab initio.
“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, by themselves and/or through their agents, servants, privies, or anyone claiming through them, from illegally destroying, attempting to sell, defacing, and/or entering the land in dispute and/or the entire Orhia/Urhude/Urhode Bush/farmland property of the claimants/Ekrekun family, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, and a place well known to the defendants.
“The sum of N23,280,000 (Twenty-three million two hundred and eighty thousand Naira) as special damages, and the sum of N5,000,000,000 (Five billion Naira) as general damages, for the cost of the claimants’ property/crops destroyed, emotional and psychological trauma, and expenses incurred as a result of the trespass.”
The defendants, having been threatened with the implications of the suit, allegedly decided to devise means to impeach the Oghwuvwie in order to facilitate their alleged illegal sale of the land.
It was men of the Nigeria Police Force, who were detailed to the community on Monday night, that brought the situation under control.
A reliable source who don’t want his name in print told DAILY SHINE NEWS that an Oghwuvwie cannot be removed by mere announcement, as the present constitution of Orhuwhorun community provides a process that must be followed.
“The President General of the community must be notified and must give approval before any removal can take place, based on proven offenses against the Oghwuvwie.
The source called on the members of the Board of Trustees of Orhuwhorun Community, the Chairman of Udu Local Government Area, Chief Vincent Oyibode, and the Ovie of Udu Kingdom to intervene in the issue for a peaceful resolution to avert any breakdown of law and order.
