A Non governmental organizations, the “Victims of Persecutions” has appealed to Sir Romanus Umenze the President General Uga Improvement Union Okwuowere Oka Uga Aguata Local Government Area Anambra state to stop Chukwudulue Kingsley Ijebuonwu’s plan to detain an Uga family of 5 in Abuja over a matter that is pending at Magistrate court in Onitsha, Anambra State.
The organisation said in a letter it also sent to Mrs Monica Ezeugo ChairLady Umu-Ada Uga, Uga Local Government Area Anambra State and others , that their quick intervention is require to stop “an ongoing plot to pull out family of Mr and Mrs Basil Okpalakunne from their home in Anambra State and to detain them in Abuja under an impoverish condition just to teach them the lesson their torture at Awka didn’t teach them.”
“Victims of Persecutions ” stated in the letter signed Maureen Agbodike that it would be inhuman , unfair and unjust to watch the continuous persecution of Mr and Mrs Basil Okpalakunne by another Uga man Ijebuonwu because the family has no body to defend them.
The organisation further stated that the attempts to uproot, arrest, discard and detain the said family comprising of the head (Okpalakunne Basil Ifeanyi) His wife (Okpalakunne Calista Chimaije )and their children (Chisom and Chimebuka Okpalakunne) are all at the instance of an Uga man Chukwudulue Kingsley Ijebuonwu who is resident in Onitsha and acting under the counsel and instigation of one Willifred Egwuonwu of Crudio D. Carissa School Ugbuolu. all members of Uga Ntutu Akwu is as horrible as unheard of.
It recalled that following their( Mr Chukwudulue Kingsley Ijebuonwu and Willifred Egwuonwu unending petitions to the office of the Inspector General of Police Force Headquarters Abuja the family of Okpalakunne were dragged to Abuja, adding that this is in addition to the brutal torture the family was subjected to in Awka and Fegge Police Station Onitsha where they were detained between May 1, and July 5 ,2023.
Stating that the weak in the society should be allowed to co- exist in their poverty, the organisation said that Okpalakunne family ordeal followed complaint by Chukwudulue Kingsley Ijebuonwu and a criminal charge No: Mo/176C / 2023 allegedly instigated against the family which prosecution is still pending before Magistrate court at Onitsha, Anambra state.
The above attempt to continuously subject the poor members of the family of Okpalakunne incessant detention and Persecutions using Nigerian Force and the instrument of law is not only unjust, malicious and unfair, but an abuse of court processes .
Besides , it is a frontier attack on Igbo concept of family, brotherhood as well as deliberate attempt to undermine the Okwuowere Oka Uga Improvement Union and Umu Ada Uga, the organisation stated.