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By Alphonsus Nweze, Awka
The Electronics Dealers Assocation Stakeholders in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State have asked the Chairman / Administrator of Electronics Dealers Market, Chief Donatus Obi, to desist with immediate effect from parading himself as the Caretaker uChairman/Administrator of the Electronic Dealers Association.
In a letter to Chief Obi signed by the stakeholders’ counsel, Chief Ugo Ugwunnadi Esq, the stakeholders said that the Anambra State Government in response to their inquiry about his status has confirmed that Obi and two of his members were not to run the affairs of the Market but purely to collect Government revenues.
Against this backdrop, said Ugwunnadi, they asked Obi to immediately “stop parading himself or allow himself to be paraded or taking actions/steps, calling and holding any meeting,constituting any committee whosoever as the Caretaker Chairman/administrator of Electronics Dealers Assocation, Onitsha”.
Chief Obi was also told in the letter dated August 29, 2023, to refund within seven days of receiving the letter the money collected/extorted from the members of Electronics Dealers Assocation since he took up the office till date.
They equally put Obi on notice that “all committees, appointments,and actions he has taken so far with respect to Electronics Dealers Assocation are void and of no legal effect”;, saying that all such committees stand dissolved immediately.
He was also asked to return to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the association, all properties and documents in his custody immediately he received the letter.
But failure to do so , said the legal practitioner, Obi would be treated as having committed crime and followed up as such among other demands they made
Reliable sources in the Market disclosed that Sir. Obi embarked on collecting both Internally Generated Revenue and other revenues in the Market.
Unfortunately, when a member of the association, Ifechukwu Anozie, went to serve Obi the letter on Wednesday, he used his vigilante to arrest and detain him.
When pressure was put on him to release Mr. Anozie, as a face saving measure he took Anozie to Okpoko Police Station where a complaint of breach of peace was made against him.
When newsmen called Obi, he said, he was in a meeting somewhere and would return the call, a promise he did not fulfill till the time of going to the press.
