Enugwu-Agidi community in Anambra State has suspended its President-General, Chukwuebuka Onuorah, for allegedly embezzling more than N30 million and engaging in alleged land-grabbing activities.
This is even as Chukwuebuka Onuorah insisted that he was never suspended as President-General of the community union.
In a communique emanating from a crucial meeting, members of the community called on the state governor, Professor Charles Soludo to intervene before the situation blows into crisis.
The communiqué, signed by the interim leader of the community, Kenechukwu Okoye, and assistant secretary, Echezona Egbeonu, said that Onuorah was suspended for allegedly embezzling more than N30 million and his engagement in alleged land-grabbing activities within the community.
The communique said that efforts by the community to get Onuorah to account for over N30 million during his period in office had failed, saying that instead, he has continued to paradise himself as the President-General of the community union despite his suspension.
“Besides unlawful collection of levies and disruption of burial rites in the community, he uses thugs to disrupt meetings, including the village women’s meeting, at will.
“Residents in Enugu-Agidi, a once peaceful town, now live in fear because Onuorah has no respect for the community’s traditional ruler, HRM, Igwe Michael Okekeuche.
“This action of his needs to be urgently checked to prevent breakdown of law and order in the community.”
The community said that Onuorah had overstayed his tenure and that he now molests anyone who dares to challenge him.
The community asked the state government, through the Ministry of Local Government, Town Union and Chieftaincy Matters, to call Onuorah to order.
However, Onuorah insisted that he had never been suspended, describing the purported suspension letter handed to him by the Central Executive Committee members of the Enugwu-Agidi Brotherly Union, as a mere “cyber cafe write-up.”
