By Alphonsus Nweze, Onitsha
The chairman of Three -Man Administration of Electronics Dealers Association, Onitsha, Chief Donatus Obi,with his two other members, Mr Benjamin Anyanwu, Mr. Nnaemeka Nwanna and their thugs Wednesday obstructed the execution of Judgment of an Anambra High Court sitting in Atani which asked the Registered Board of Trustees (BoT) of the association to take over the leadership of market.
The Court on July 26, 2024, had ordered Obi led Three -Man Administrstor to limit themselves to the collection of Government revenues which are tax and development levy .
They were also directed not to get involved in the collection of Electricity levy, sanitation levy, security levy, loading and off-loading levies, which belong to the association.
The Court declared that the Three-Man Administrator would be acting ultra-vires if they went ahead to collect any other levy except tax and development levy.
The Court therefore perpetually restrained Chief Obi and two other members as well as their servants, agents from collecting any other levy or monies of any kind from members of Electronics Dealers Association Onitsha except tax and development levy.
The administrors were ordered to give account of all other revenues they had collected since they assumed office to the Board of Trustees (BoT) till the day of the judgment.
The Court ordered them to pay N500, 000 to the plaintiff, Ifechi Anozie.
The members of the registered Board of Trustees of the market are: Okechukwu Okoli, Gozaac, Philip Iheanacho, Africana, Simon Nwankwo, Dona Onyirioha,Godson Nwosu, Ben Anyanwu and Nnaemeka Nwanna.
Anozie, a trader in the market had dragged the Three-Man Administrator to court,praying the court to stop them from further collection of other revenues in the market except the two approved revenues by the State Government.
But when Anozie with members of BoT who came with some Police from Zone 13 Ukpo and three bailliffs to execute the judgment, Obi and his cohorts in the market blocked them.
Anozie who spoke to newsmen later said apart from the judgment itself, there was a letter to Zone 13 Ukpo and the Divisional Police Officer DPO, Okpoko from the Court but Obi, Kelech, Commander Electronics Dealers Security, Chidubem Ehirim, Nameson Maduakolam, Simeon, Ebube, Chijioke and others blocked the execution of the judgment.
He said they with their thugs threatened him and boasted that they would drive him out of the market.
Anozie also said that Obi and his group claimed that they have stay of execution of the judgment which was neither served him nor his lawyer, Ugo Ugwunnadi.
He said none of the three bailliffs attached to the High Court served the stay of execution and it was not in the record of the Court. “So, where did they obtain the stay and who served it. We want to believe that the stay is a jankra one?” said Anozie.
He said for obstructing the execution of the judgment of a Court of competent jurisdiction, he has directed his lawyer to go to court to obtain form 48 and 49 which would be served on them.
But the three bailliffs who came to execute the judgment equally bungled that exercise as they seemed confused on what to do or might have deliberately refused to carry out the execution.
They were swayed by Chief Obi’s men who took them inside security office of the market for a discussion.
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