Nze Chukwuma Nwachukwu was a permanent secretary in the Local Government Ministry during Ikedi Ohakim’s administration. He had employed Anthony Anyanwu for purposes of fraud into storekeeper’s kingpin in the same ministry and, in cahoots, both officers made free of public funds for self-enrichment. He thus prepared him for retirement with donating leadership of Amohuru Community to him.
With this mindset, and his conviction that he had the wherewithal to impose his will on the community, he used his stooges in the ministry to destroy records in Ministry of Community Government and Traditional Affairs, manned by those he had favoured with highly-priced employment and promotion, to damage the sanctity of government records.
That was how come all documents filed in respect of my election as Eze (king) of my community were removed from the ministry and the fraudulent documents of Anyanwu were filed in replacement. Not one official in the ministry had the guts to speak up since the ministry had become Nwachukwu’s chattel. He boasted that government was his turf and that he would go the whole hog to stultify the will of Amohuru people.
Nigeria Police and other security agents were courted and used to effect. He paid State Security Services (SSS) to terrorise me with its personnel. The officers fell for filthy lucre. After two sessions at which both Amohuru Community officials, who were responsible for my election, and a six-member gang who had been assembled by Nwachukwu for his chain of deceits, made up of a minority in the community, it became apparent to the SSS officials that there was nothing for them to do with Ezeship. They consequently requested us to go and sort out ourselves and never mention we were ever at their office in respect of the matter.
Our Nguru Constituency representative in Imo State House of Assembly, Mrs. Ngozi Pat Ekeji (Olaedo), lamented the forgeries that had attended Amohuru stool matter and vowed that it were better that autonomous community status, which she championed, should be revoked for its deleterious effect on integrity of government. I rejected her stand, for it being no solution. The solution was to curb executive licentiousness and criminal access to public records.
My lawyer, Judex Nwawudu, had obtained pendency documents from Aboh Mbaise High Court, regarding a matter which was filed by Anyanwu against Jude Njoku, Chairman of Aladimma Amohuo and six others on Ezeship. Government, in response to acquaintance with that suit, set up an independent panel to investigate the dispute. The report of the findings of that panel has since been presented to government. Nwachukwu had since boasted that the report would not see the light of day. The chairman of the panel was invited to SSS and he testified. There was silence afterwards.
Imo Secretary to State Government (SSG) has been compromised by Nwachukwu to balk any move to vitiate the erroneous grant of staff of office to Anyanwu and he has religiously adhered to that despite his status as an academic. Government apparatus has been purchased to prevail against the will of Amohuru people to decide who their monarch should be.
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) was next approached in Abuja with spurious allegations about my directing the destruction of Nwachukwu’s house and other properties. I was arrested and taken to Zone 9, Umuahia, to make statements along with 20 other fellow citizens of Amohuru, both male and female, named as culprits in the false allegation.
The Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, in his wisdom, sent a senior officer to see if the allegation was true. Alas it was not. We qualified for bail. I had written subsequently to the IGP informing him that my fundamental human rights had been violated, but there has not been any reply ever since. It is easy to deduce that the Nigeria Police is purchasable, and that is a disaster for the future of Nigerian nation state.
Zone 9 hurriedly filed a suit against me at Aboh Mbaise High Court despite Nwachukwu’s spurious allegations. A matter of Double Barrel Short Gun, which I voluntarily declared to Nigeria Police when asked if I had a weapon, took centre stage. I was to be denied bail for failing to be current with my renewal. It was a paid ruse to halt my coronation plan which had been scheduled by my people despite obstacles to fulfilment of my people’s will. I was granted bail by a circumspect magistrate.
I have brought these travails to the public domain for awareness of the depth of our national depravity. That Nigeria Police could be primed into terrorism by financial patronage by someone who vowed that Nigeria cannot operate without the oil of corruption speaks volumes of our country’s woes in the days ahead. Certainly, the political processes we are currently on will not yield positive results given the scenario that has been painted here. That the apparatus of government can be defiled and cast aside by just one retired permanent secretary who made free of public money and has gone scot-free and now has decided to rubbish government organs to foist a surrogate on a community to which I belong, and has sustained this through the better part of two years of brigandage unmitigated, is a curse on my generation and future generations, which must not be allowed to happen. I hereby publicly declare that I shall lay down my life for remedy to this trend and call on all those who value their progeny to stand up to be counted now.