One of the alleged land scams which characterized the reign of Victor Nnam as Commissioner for Lands is a portion of land bought and developed by the past Chairman of Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State Hon Chukwudi Ezinwa.
Facts show that it was a land racket that went sour. They may have picked on the wrong person.
Ezinwa had raised the alarm long before the Commissioner threw in the towel.
The former Chairman has been vocal and even mocked the Commissioner after his resignation, that he can’t runaway from his sins.
The embattled commissioner on his part has refused to come open. He has rather hid behind the walls from where his aimless pebbles keep dropping without reasonable impact.
In this article, Ezinwa replies the Commissioner’s failed attempt to justify the fraud in his land.
RE: THE TRUTH ABOUT CHUKWUDI EZINWA AND THE LAND MESS IN ENUGU.
My attention has been drawn to an online publication by COALCITY INFO, through the Facebook medium dated the 1st day of November, 2021 entitled ” THE TRUTH ABOUT CHUKWUDI EZINWA AND THE LAND MESS IN ENUGU ” by a paid faceless agent of Surv. Dr. Victor Chukwuemeka Nnam who last week resigned his appointment as the Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development, Enugu State for obvious reasons.
By my disposition, I ought not to have responded to the gibberish, as it would amount to dignifying pedestrian journalism, however, to keep the facts very straight and clear for the curious readers, I have decided to do the needful.
First and foremost, the caption should have been ” THE TRUTH ABOUT CHUKWUDI EZINWA AND THE LAND MESS IN THE MINISTRY OF LANDS ENUGU UNDER SURV. DR. VICTOR CHUKWUEMEKA NNAM “
Be it known, that, I Honourable Chukwudi Ezinwa, have no personal scores to settle with Surv. Dr. Victor Chukwuemeka Nnam, but his failure to diligently act in his capacity as the supervisor/Commissioner in charge of his Ministry vis a vis the brazen act of corruption and fraudulent activities of his HODs, especially, Mrs. Chinyere Ugwu and others as contained in a petition dated 25/5/2021 brought by me to him with the view to set a panel of inquiry or committee to look into my complaint involving the de jure deprivation of my property known as Plot 318, New GRA, Trans – Ekulu, Enugu.
Prior to the petition dated, the 25/5/2021, and while still in office, I had instructed my Lawyers to write the Commissioner in respect of my missing file and land documents at the Ministry of Lands, but non of the petitions saw the light of the day as my land documents and all the letters written to the Ministry were claimed and actually found to be missing orchestrated by a female Director who was instrumental to my ordeals and whose relative with the same surname, was found out to have been issued with a Certificate of Occupancy in 2014 over a property I bought from one Prince Onyeka Onyia in 2008. The said Prince Onyeka Onyia, was granted Allocation of the said Plot 318, New GRA, in 2006. However, before my transaction with Prince Onyeka Onyia, I conducted a search at the Lands Registry and found the Allocation to be genuine and the land, not encumbered.
Thereafter, I fenced the property and put a gate, built a 4 bedroom bungalow, a gate man’s house and a fishpond in the property unchallenged till this moment of reading the article.
The straw that broke the camels back was when I decided to apply for the Certificate of Occupancy of the property that I discovered to my utter surprise and shock, that they have altered every document pertaining to the property and termed mine FAKE.
So, my cause for concern, is, how come about the C of O, issued to one Jimmy Ugwu without the due process of visiting the property to see the level of development made by me, and who gave the consent for the Certificate of Occupancy to be given to Jimmy Ugwu, etc. These and other questions were what I raised in my petition to the Commissioner and demanded for an inquiry to unravel the mystery which the Commissioner deliberately refused to act upon and that did not go down well with me.
The failure of the Commissioner to act diligently over my complaint on the unscrupulous, unwholesome corrupt and fraudulent activities of his top staff needs much considered either as a pretentious weakness in veiled connivance and collusion with such staff. No wonder, the Commissioner became uncomfortable and quickly resigned on the ground that his professional HODs were removed by the Governor. Professional HODs indeed or professional corrupt practitioners indeed.
I thank His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Enugu State, Hon Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in acting fast by suspending the acclaimed professional HODs and subjecting them to the disciplinary committee of the Enugu State Civil service commission and I still maintain, that the camouflaged resignation of arrowhead should not be an estoppel on the government from setting up an administrative or legal panel of inquiry to investigate the rot in the Ministry of Lands under the immediate past Commissioner and his cohorts with the objective of finding and determining the extent of the culpability of everyone found wanting.
NB: The embattled ex Commissioner claimed that Plot 318 New GRA was allocated to one Jimmy Ugwu on November 14, 1995 and obtained C of O Jan 7 2014.
For discerning minds; New GRA was carved out by the administration of Governor Chimaraoke Nnamani which came on board in 1999. Yet the land was allotted in 1995.
The C of O he said, was issued 19 years after. From 1995 to 2014. Who is fooling who?
Meanwhile, I took possession of the virgin Land in 2008.
The commissioner also lied that his Jimmy Ugwu developed the land.
This is a land I developed, and I am still in possession.
Lastly, who is Jimmy Ugwu? Our Investigation shows there is nobody like that. And if he exists why hasn’t he shown his face in all these. Yeye de smell.
Hon. Chukwudi Ezinwa
(For LG Chairman, Ezeagu and SSA to the Executive Governor of Enugu State, His Excellency, Hon Lawrence Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi)
