The villages involved include, Aboji, Isu and Ogwugwu, all in Oba.
It was gathered that the people of Aboji and Isu first had a prolonged land dispute which ended on November 18, 1964, when the Supreme court gave judgment in favour of Isu.
The tussle is over four large expense of lands called, Isiakobo, Awana Odoakwali, Mkpolo and Ulaogwe.
However, the people of Ogwugwu, also dragged the Aboji people to Supreme court over the same land and on August 5, 1994, obtained judgment against Aboji people.
Funny enough, the people of Isu had Ogwugwu people as witness in their matter against Aboji.
After judgement was delivered in favour of Isu, the Ogwugwu people also brought Isu people as witness against Aboji.
President General of Aboji, Nze Dozie Nweke, while speaking on the Supreme court judgments in this the prolonged land tussle, demanded to know which of the two villages, Isu and Ogwugwu, would Aboji deal with as their landlords.
According to him, “since there are two supreme court judgments on the same land with different dates, which of the judgements do we follow?
“Both Isu and Ogwugwu should also bring their plan of the land to know whose tenants we are.
“We can not be tenants to two land lords. Two different judgments were delivered on same land, so which of them do we follow. Is it the one of 1964 or that of 1994.”
He therefore warned his Aboji people not to sign a certain document said to have been
prepared by Hon. Chuba Oranusi, demanding that the Aboji people
sign to indicate that they are tenants according to the Supreme
court judgment.
He described the document and The name, Umueze Ogwugwu, instead of Ogwugwu, as fraud warning that “any indigene of Aboji that signs that document would be sanctioned, it is null and void and of no effect.”
“Moreover, a Peace Committee set up by the Regent of Oba community, Prince Noel Ezenwa, and headed by former President General of Oba Community, Chief Ben Chibueze, is currently looking into the matter with a view to finding a lasting solution to the Supreme court judgment and as such, all should wait until the committee concludes its work and comes up with a report.”
Contacted, the Peace committee chairman, Chief Ben Chibueze, confirmed that the committee is looking into the matter.
But in a swift reaction Hon. Oranusi reiterated that, he was acting on the judgment on behalf of Isu and Ogwugwu villages who won the cases.
His words, “we will push them (Aboji people) out if they refuse to
sign the document. They should obey the court judgment, if they are not interested in signing the document, it is left for them.”