BEAUTY QUEEN PAMELA IFEJOKU CONFRONTS NED NWOKO BRAVELY

If you have not been to Twitter and Instagram lately, you better hurry there to read one of the most powerful exchanges between a dear brave daughter, Pamela Ifejoku  and a lying bullynaire, Ned Nwoko. Pamela Uzor Ifejoku, Most Beautiful Girl In Nigerian Tourism 2019 is the daughter of Okey Ifejoku who is currently languishing in the Asaba detention center. Okey Ifejoku is among about 18 persons fraudulently charged with murder and terrorism in 2017. Pamela’s trending posts have forced Ned Nwoko to respond and commit a strategic blunder. This may be who will bring truth and justice to Idumuje Ugboko. Ned Nwoko dey fear this brave babe. Please read her narratives:

" Ned Nwoko has consistently used proxies to do his dirty and fraudulent charges, in concert with dubious Nigerian police to lock up innocent men, including my father from Idumuje Ugboko for the murder that never happened or existed. How can one man be murdered so many times by different men and at different locations? Yes, all the charges do not list Ned Nwoko as the complainant. But he responded to my post and called me a liar: that confirmed that he is the sponsor of these frauds, as being insinuated. 

He is the main financier of the arrests and intimidations of my dad and our people. I am tired of standing by and watch one heartless man destroy our people, continue to use his financial resources to front and fund frivolous murder and terrorism charges against innocent men and the King of my hometown. If my father committed murder and terrorism, why is Ned Nwoko the one funding the ambush arrests and charges? Ned your name rings on the hallways and byways of the police stations as the “Order from Above”. . Where are the family of the alleged murdered victim? Doesn’t the dead have a family? Is Ned Nwoko from Benue State the alleged hometown of the victim?  Why are there inconsistencies from your camp as to how the man was murdered? 

Since Ned Nwoko continues to mention MURDER AND TERRORISM against my father, let's then examine this case. 

This is what Ned Nwoko doesn’t want you to know about the murder charges:

Sometime in 2017, Ned Nwoko instigated a crisis in Idumuje Ugboko Community in Delta State, as a result of the community's firm refusal to give him additional 90 hectares of land, having mismanaged the over hectares earlier giving to him.

In the ensuing crisis, it was alleged that one Cyprian Kumaorun was killed. While this was ongoing, Mr. Okey Ifejoku was several kilometers away in Asaba. He was neither present at the scene of the crisis nor participate in any alleged fight. 

However, since then, Ned Nwoko has made it a point of duty to terrorize the community until they fall on their knees and offer him the land on a platter. 

By virtue of Mr. Okey Ifejoku's position as the chairman of the Idumuje Ugboko Development Union, he has borne the greatest oppression from Ned Nwoko. 

Ned Nwoko has unlawfully used the instruments of state, particularly the Nigeria police in Delta State and Abuja, to oppress the helpless members of Idumuje Community.

In 2017, Ned Nwoko prompted the Police in Delta State to file Charge Number: A/240C/2017, at the High Court of Delta State, against Ochei Nnamdi and Ofonye Ufoh, for the alleged murder of Cyprian Kumaorun. This charge was held on merit and the defendants were acquitted.

Not done, Ned Nwoko, once again, prompted the police to file charge no: MI/24C/2020, at the magistrate court of Delta State, Isele-Uku, against his own king (Obi Chukwunonso Nwoko), Mr. Okey Ifejoku and four other innocent members of the community, for the alleged murder of Cyprian Kumaorun. The charge was sent to the DPP of Delta State, who advised that the defendants had no case to answer: On the basis of the DPP's legal advice, the charge was struck out. 

While this was going, Ned Nwoko moved to Abuja and got officers of the FCID Abuja to arrest Mr. Okey Ifejoku and 9 other members of the Idumuje Ugboko community. The 10 defendants were arrested, detained at FCID for up to six months, before they were charged to Court, in two batches, by the office of the A.G of the Federation for alleged terrorism and alleged murder of Cyprian Kumaorun. One wonders how the A.G of the Federation got so interested in a Communal Dispute in Idumuje Ugboko, with all the actual terrorism and banditry going in the North East and North West of Nigeria. Additionally, how could a charge be filed in Abuja when all the ingredients of the alleged offense and all the defendants reside in Delta State?

The first charge: FHC/CR/169/2020 was before Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the FHC and has been transferred to the FHC , Delta State.

The Charge: FH/CR/11/2019 (Mr. *Okey Ifejoku and 7 others) was assigned to Justice Abang of the Federal High Court. As of the time of writing this, 7 of the defendants have been granted bail, while the innocent youth Leader, Raymond Omosiete, has remained unjustly incarcerated, first at FCID Abuja, and later at Nigerian Correctional Service, Suleja, since November 23, 2020. All on Ned Nwoko's prompting.

Mr. Okey Ifejuku spent a cumulative time of about 9 months in both FCID and Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kuje, before he could perfect his very stringent bail conditions.

Seeing that almost all the defendants have been granted bail and that the charge is being exposed for what it is, outright persecution, Ned Nwoko, once again, prompted officers of the same FCID Abuja, to initiate another round of arrest, for the alleged murder of the same Cyprian Kumaorun, for which Mr. Okey Ifejoku had earlier been discharged by the Magistrate Court, upon the DPP's advice, and is in fact, still standing trial at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

On March 25, 2021, as Mr. Okey Ifejoku and his codefendants exited the FHC Abuja, where they had gone to attend their trial, officers of the FCID Abuja, arrested him and his deputy, Mr. Godwin Akaba, kept them at FCID for almost a week, before they were transferred to Delta State Police Command, Asaba, where they are still being detained right now.

Upon inquiries at the FCID, we were informed that they were arrested for the alleged murder of Cyprian Kumaorun. A few weeks later, an additional member of the community was arrested, and the police have vowed to arrest and prosecute the entire community, even though there are several concluded and ongoing cases on this issue. 

As at the time of writing this, Mr. Okey Ifejoku, who has been granted bail by the Federal High Court, is in detention at the Delta State Police Command, Asaba, for an offense he did not commit. The Police have not charged him to court and they have refused to release him.

While all these are ongoing, Ned Nwoko has instigated some members of the community with no trace of royalty to challenge the Obiship of King Chukwunonso Nwoko. As a result of this, the king is yet to be given a staff of office, more than three years after he assumed the stool of his forefathers. 

QUESTIONS FOR NED NWOKO:

1. What does Ned Nwoko want?

2. Why does he insist on Mr. Ifejoku Okey being detained indefinitely for the same offense he had earlier been discharged by the Magistrate Court and is also standing trial at the Federal High court, having been granted bail?

3. Does it not amount to an abuse of court process, cherry-picking and forum shopping, for the state and the police, prompted by Ned Nwoko, to arrest several members of the Idumuju Ugboko community and charged them in several different courts, for the same alleged offense? 

4. What happens if the FHC and the High Court give different judgments on the same issue, same facts and same defendants? 

5. Why does Ned Nwoko insist on the persecution of Mr. Okey Ifejoku even though he is innocent?

6. Can a man be bigger than his community? 

THE SAGA

The King (traditionally known to indigenes as OBI) is the paramount ruler with administrative structure, supported by Chiefs and the town union’s Union, IDUMUJE-UGBOKO DEVELOPMENT UNION WORLDWIDE, widely abbreviated as IUDU. The union is administratively led by an elected PRESIDENT GENERAL.

The current elected President general of The Idumuje Ugboko Development Union is OKEY IFEJOKU. The union’s primary responsibility includes but not limited to; oversee the general development of our homeland, Idumuje Ugboko and assist in structured administration of Idumuje-Ugboko.

I was elected the president general since the year 2016 at the Easter general IUDU Annual conference. During that conference, a section of the community “OWU PEOPLE ” peacefully protested that CHINEDU CELESTINE NWOKO NWA UDENWWAMAKA, AKA NED NWOKO had invaded their farmlands, destroyed their crops and the fruits of their lifetime labor.

They carried various agro-economic crops such as cassava, yams, cocoa yams, melons, palm trees, yams, ogbono. This farm produces was massively destroyed by the invader NED NWOKO!.

The OWU PEOPLE appealed for assistance and intervention from IUDU. Thus, the NEC of IUDU called for a stakeholders meeting inviting all parties to resolve the issue.

In that meeting, Ned Nwoko explained his vision of building a golf course in the community.

He shared that the golf course would require 90 hectares of land and another 100 hectares for sports university, thence he invaded the farmlands. Itmight interest you to know that Ned Nwoko had previously been blessed with 33.4 hectares of land for dairy farms which never manifested. Instead, he built his personal estate in that land against the original purpose for which the late Obi blessed him with 33 hectares. That earned him a trust deficit in the community.

Many Ugboko indigenes questioned the viability of a golf course.

But we supported his visions for a university. The then crowned Prince CHUKWUNONSO JUSTIN NWOKO ( now the KING OF IDUMUJE UGBOKO) was part of the meeting and asked what Ned did with the previous land given to him and if he considered the entire youths of Idumuje Ugboko before the huge request and also the availability of such land magnitude in Idumuje Ugboko.

Consequently, at the meeting, I appreciated Ned Nwoko for his developmental vision.

However, I reminded him that development starts with the people and not with structures.

I pleaded and encouraged Ned Nwoko to pay compensation to peasant farmers that he destroyed their crops and negotiate for outright purchase of respective lands.

The community advised that he should commence his developmental strides in the previous 33.4 hectares allotted to him since the year 2000 with the promise that if he needed more, due process should be followed. I went further and promised him that I would donate my private estate to serve as the Vice Chancellor’s lodge.

Since after that meeting, our community has not known peace. Ned Nwoko used his wealth to divide, rule, intimidate our elders and the young including Obi Chukwunonso He brazenly employed the police to invade our town at odd hours and harass our people, arrest innocent young men. He used financial inducement by buying the Chiefs’ cars. Ned reached out to me through one Professor Oseghale congratulating me as his board member, fraudulently using my name in his university brochures’ statement without my consent.

The next approach was asking me to bring forward my academic credentials to meet with His Excellency, Governor Okowa for a commissioner’s position. He specifically mentioned people like AGENDA bothering him, but we have come a long way back.

After various attempts to coerce me into his land grabbing strategies, without success, he declared me a personal non grata.

Our late OBI ALBERT NWOKO the 3rd died February 2017 and the first son Obi Justin Oraeze Chukwunonso 1″ ascended the throne as our custom and tradition does not accept a vacuum ”OBI AGU NA UKPO"

Ned Nwoko has and continues to intimidate, jail, harass HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, OBI CHUKWUNONSO. The amiable king has not ruled our ancient proud Kingdom with peace since he was coronated.

Ned Nwoko has been a torment to our land and our King. I led a team of respected goodwill people to appeal to Ned for support for the interest of our community, I sent the youth branch of our union to ask for his support as an elder, all to no avail. He vowed before the youths that Obi Justin Oraeze will never enjoy the throne of his forefathers.

Idumuje Ugboko has no king-making process because kings are born not made. It’s worthy to note too that Idumuje has four quarters that make up the town. No quarter is at war with each other. Idumuje Ugboko is at peace with herself but Ned Chinedu celestine Nwoko, aka Ned Munir Nwoko, refuses to give us peace. He vowed to puncture the ancestral traditional administrative structure and made our community ungovernable by the following ways:

*Calling our king unprintable names, destroying and defaming the King’s character and our sacred traditional institution.

*Instituted multiple ligations by sponsoring various individuals contesting the throne without legal success.

* Financially induced the chiefs: bought them cars to serve as agents for community destabilization.

* He polarized our community vigilante group that provides security and created his own gun tottering vigilantes.

* He has been struggling vehemently to destroy the town’s union (IUDU) creating his parallel union codename (UPA) meaning UGBOKO PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION.

* His sponsorship for my various arrests and detentions is just a ploy to destroy IUDU and leaving our king without any supporting strength.

His divide and rule method is through financial inducement, making his juvenile supporters above the law and beyond police arrests, He subjects our community to constant daylight intimidation, harassment, ambush arrests by the corrupt jack-booted police, who arrest incessantly, detain us on trumped-up charges without proofs.

WE HAVE SEVERALLY ASKED NED NWOKO WHAT HE WANTS?

if it’s land, he has forcefully taken all community and individuals lands. Idumuje Ugboko’s situation is like the proverbial saying of severely beating a child and ask the child not to cry. Idumuje Ugboko has seen chronic oppression of the poor, the rich and the violent perversion of justice in our land.

Initiallywe did not marvel at it thinking that high officials of DELTA STATE watched over high officials and higher officials are over them – but these hopes were all to no redemption. IdumujeUgboko has written, protested to Delta State Government, Aniocha North local government, Delta state house of assembly, Aniocha north traditional council, etc, all to no avail. It’s paramount to inform that Ned Nwoko is absolutely alleging assassination plot on Gabriel Ogbechie, the CEO of Rain Oil Ltd. An achiever, illustrious son of Idumuje Ugboko and a great community developer per excellence because he helped to process me out of jail after privately visiting him at Abuja with an appeal to give Ugboko peace.

Our Prayers!

Good people of ANIOCHA NORTH LGA, DELTA STATE GOVERNMENT, and Nigerians in general, should please come to Idumuje Ugboko’s rescue for life becomes Brutish without consequential laws.

I ask again – WHAT DOES NED WANT?HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN REALLY NEEDS