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High Chief Samuel Nweke, a former President-General of Ifitedunu community in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State, has said that it is contempt of court as well as a disregard of court processes for one Uchenna Nwoye Oragwuncha to publish in the online news media a matter that is before a court of competent authority.
Nweke who spoke exclusively Daily Independent at Ukpomili village Ifitedunu, maintained that Uchenna Nwoye Oragwuncha, who was his successor, disrespected the court by publishing that a South African based businessman, Chief Vincent Udobi, and 11 others would be arraigned in court on June 19, this year; describing such publication as preemptive.
Nweke, who described Oragwuncha as liar, said all the allegations he levelled against Chief Vincent Udobi and the 11 others were unsubstantiated and unfounded because, according to him, it was during the tenure of Uchenna Nwoye Oragwuncha as President-General of Ifitedunu Town Union that the community was plunged into crisis leading to the death of one man and several others matcheted by the touts he recruited, adding that there is pictorial evidences of his claims.
He recalled that it was the same Uchenna Nwoye Oragwuncha who accused Chief Vincent Udobi of sending the assassins that killed the President-General of Nimo community in Njikoka to kill him.
But according to him, when Chief Vincent Udobi took him to court to prove that he hired killers to kill him, Oragwuncha couldn’t prove it in court; hence the court sentenced him to one year imprisonment without an option of fine.
More so, Nweke said that Uchenna Nwoye Oragwuncha claimed that he was brutalized and his spinal cord damaged. He challenged him to produce a video evidence of where he was allegedly being brutally beaten before the court.
Nweke stated that it was one Nnamdi Abaeze who had issues with the community youths and not Oragwuncha as evident in the video he is brandishing as evidence.
According to him, problems began when the chairmen of the five villages of Ifitedunu, the Igwe-in-Council and stakeholders asked him to discontinue the market stall projects he undertook unilaterally at Nkwo-Ifitedunu; collecting N2.5 million each which he said Oragwuncha refused. This, he said, led to the fracas at Nkwo-Ifitedunu market and nobody touched him because he was not there.
He further disclosed that Oragwuncha who is claiming that he was beaten, sold a vehicle and some other valuable items he bought for Ifitedunu Town Union when he was the PG and that till date, nobody knows the whereabouts of the vehicle.
Nweke maintained that he was flabbergasted to see such publication online while the case is pending before the High Court of Anambra State.
He said Oragwuncha claimed to travel to Spain for medical treatments on his broken spinal cord but all those were lies because his family lives in Spain and he visits them there. He said someone who claims that his spinal cord was broken does exercises on daily basis at Ekwueme square Awka, drives his car around even with the broken spinal cord and not in a wheelchair.
He emphasized his position that nobody touched Uchenna Nwoye Oragwuncha and that whatever he is saying are lies. Nweke equally disclosed that an out of court settlement was brokered before Oragwuncha approached the court but according to him, Oragwuncha insisted that he would be paid N150 million as his litigation expenses threatening that he would use his
Oragwuncha who he said was impeached by Ifitedunu people due to his abrasive style of governance, is known to be a troubleshooter as he has also dragged the traditional ruler of Ifitedunu to court over his own share of the Igwe’s ofala festival proceeds, noting that he is always harvesting where he didn’t cultivate.
Nweke told Daily that the accusations heaped on Chief Vincent Udobi should be disregarded because he is a man of philanthropy helping and assisting people with means of livelihoods such as vehicles, tricycles and a host of others coupled with helping with financial resources to treat people with kidney problems, educational sponsorships and many others.
Nweke, however, pointed out that the reason Uchenna Nwoye Oragwuncha dragged Chief Vincent Udobi to court was because he boasted that he would send him and 11 others to prison just the same way Udobi sent him to prison; threatening that he must achieve it because he knows people in high places as he is on a vengeance mission to get his own pound of flesh and to tarnish the image of Chief Vincent Udobi and the 11 others he dragged to court.
