One Mr Fabulous Amaewhule has narrated how soldiers invaded his family’s property located at Mbodo village in Aluu Community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State and brutalized him while destroying property worth millions of naira.
In a series of petitions sent to the Minister of Defence, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Defence Staff, Rivers State governor and others, said one Chinedu Amadi, aka Tigani, Sam Nyegwa, Uncle Weneda Nyegwa, My Ory Martins Akinseloyin, Boing Luxury Estates Limited, Timit Properties Limited and many unknown cohorts instigated soldiers to forcefully vacate them from their property.
The Petition titled “RE: A CASE OF MILITARY INVASION, ATTEMPTED MURDER, MALICIOUS DAMAGE, ACTS OF MILITARY BRUTALITY, HARRASSMENT, MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN LAND GRABBING AND INTIMIDATION PLUS ACTIONS CAPABLE OF CAUSING GENOCIDE, HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AND CONTEMPT OF COURT PERPETRATED BY MAJOR GENERAL JOHNSON IREFIN, COLONEL TIMOTHY OPURUM, CAPTAIN EDET INSTIGATED BY MR. CHINEDU AMADI A.K.A TIGANI, SAM NYEGWA, UNCLE WENENDA NYEGWA, MR. ORY MARTINS AKINSELOYIN, BOEING LUXURY ESTATES LIMITED, TIMIT PROPERTIES LIMITED AND MANY OTHER UNKNOWN COHORTS, the family said “We the members of the Amaewhule Family in Mbodo Community, Aluu Town in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State being represented by FABULOUS AMAEWHULE do respectfully bring the above complaint for your immediate intervention and necessary action as follows:
“That on the 22nd of October 2020, we brought the above complaint to the General Officer Commanding 6 Division, Chief of Army Staff and another high ranking military Army Personnel.
” That on the 27th of October 2020, I was invited to adopt our Petition, I adopted our Petition before an Officer in the General Officer Commanding Office one Mr. Romagius , after which he assured me that the Military has no business with anything Land and that he will call his men to order.
“That to our chagrin, one week later they called me that the General Officer Commanding has requested that I should come to prove our case with documents and prove ownership of our Land.
” That I refused because my Lawyer informed me that since the matter was before a Court, it is only the business of Court to discuss and determine Land ownership and not the Army and I decided to forward my Lawyer’s phone number to contact them and he told them the same thing, I also left my Court documents with them.
“That further to our chagrin, on the 13th and 14th of November 2020, the military invaded again saying that for my failure to bring our documents, that they will take over our Land, and will deal mercilessly with us, this time they invaded my Industry and destroyed properties worth over Five Hundred Million Naira (N500, 000,000.00) carting away with caterpillars, tractors, equipments for civil construction job and dealt with my staff, beat them mercilessly and wounded some that are still in hospital till today. Attached herein is the picture of some of the wounded persons.
“That as we write now, they are still on the Land laying siege, destroying and pulling down every property that we have suffered to build over the years just to take over our Land.
” That when the Police confronted the Soldiers on ground, they said they were there at the instance of the G.O.C 6 Divisions and it is only him who can ask them to leave.
” That we have made effort to reach out to the General Officer Commanding 6 Divisions, the feelers from a hindsight is that the General Officer Commanding 6 Divisions is highly complacent and deeply compromised in this matter and these things cannot be happening without his watch and we have contacted the Military Police also headed by Colonel Sarki with phone number 08064961131, and he said that the G.O.C 6 Divisions said I must come to Army Barrack to defend and prove our ownership of the Land before he will remove his men there.
“That I told them that it is not the Army’s role to administer the ownership of Land and I know that the intention is to kill me and take over our family property.
” That the characters who have brought this Boeing Luxury Estate and others are people who have lost to my boundary neighbour from another Community in Court Mr. C. Eke, they have started again to disturb our peaceful possession
” That we have not ceded any part of their Land to a military man nor any military formation.
” That this act is a clear breach of Order of Court, a violation of civil rights and irresponsible engagements.
“That if this lawlessness is not checked and stopped immediately, it could lead to needless upheavals, civil/military crisis or even bloodshed.
CONSEQUENTLY SIR, we humbly implore you to intervene swiftly, call them to order, remove and evacuate the Army from our property and restore them back”
