ABIA: We’ve Unanimously Chosen HRH Ikechukwu Oji Uka Ukoji As Ezieogo Okagwe, Says Nde Ukoji Royal Clan

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RESOLUTION/PRESS RELEASE OF NDE UKOJI ROYAL CLAN OF OKAGWE-OHAFIA, DATED THIS 14th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2024.

To the good people of Okagwe Ohafia, Ohafia supreme traditional Ruling Body (Ohafia monarch), great concerned Ohafia indigenes and Abia State at large, we, the Nde Ukoji Royal Clan unanimously make our stand and resolution known to the general public, on the Kingship (Eze-ogo) matter in our beloved community.

In accordance to our ancestral family rotational order, custom and equity, structured by our forefathers, and the Ohafia monarch’s new order on choosing a traditional ruler, We hereby in one voice, present to you our beloved son, HRH Ikechukwu Oji Uka Ukoji, as the man upon whose head the mantle falls to be the next king (Eze-Ogo) of Okagwe Ohafia.

In summary, It is no longer news that some mischievous group of persons, plunged our beloved community into series of mess, alongside hijacking the kingship stool, defiling the due process of installing a king in our community and desecrated our age long sacrament.

These few hoodlums began their evil plots and activities with the ongoing Hope Waddel University project agreement of the Presbyterian Church, back in the year 2020.
They moved on to cause problems in the Okagwe Development Union (ODU) national leadership, the organized body that oversees the development aspect of our community, with cheap propaganda that the national executives of the union were compromised on the University matters.
So they plotted to hijack the leadership, which they woefully failed by the smart approach from some of our nobles, elders, regent and council of chiefs then.

Whilst the community was still grappling with that, seeing that their plots failed, they brainwashed and mobilized the youths resident in our community against the regent and the council of chiefs who never supported their evil plots, at the very crucial moment the community was about to install a new king from Nde Ukoji Royal Clan, and committed another serious criminal offense called insurrection (the act of overtaking a duly constituted authority of a land).

It has really been a serious challenging moment for our beloved community and people as a whole, as the atrocious activities of this hoodlums brought about loss of properties by vandalism, tension, fear, injuries and cold blooded murder of one of very own, in Nde Ukoji Family, in person of late Prince Eze.
They also inflicted our community with high level of insecurity and hardship, going about intimidating, stampeding and intentionally oppressing everyone that opposes their evil by speaking the truth against their lies.

The community has also experienced huge setbacks, lack of developments and stagnation these few years, in the hands of this gangs.

In their atrocious acts, they installed one Mr Etti against the choice of Nde Ukoji Royal Clan, masterminded by one Mr Emeka Ukpai, Kalusha and a few others, in order to perpetrate their evil agenda, hold the community to ransom and destabilize the sound traditional structures that unit and govern our community in harmony by our forefathers.

We wish to salute the courage, bravery and gallantry of all the well meaning sons and daughters of Okagwe Ohafia, home and abroad, who took their stand firmly on the path of truth against all odds, confronting and combating their evil, both online and on-site engagements, refusing to be bullied and intimidated by these gangsters.

We specifically thank our beloved traditional Prime minister (Nna Okagwe), Barrister Chief Umeh Kalu, Eze Odum Amogu of Owuwa anyanwu autonomous community, the ODU interim leaders and all our nobles/kinsmen, home and abroad, who recently in December 2023, traveled down home, invested their precious time, resources and energy, to see that peace is restored in our land.
For security reasons, we are compelled not to mention all your names here, but we deeply appreciate your resilience, efforts and passionate love for our dear community.
Be rest assured that you all already achieved a great deal of the peace we desire in our community, you ignited hope and activated the wind of joy, relieve and celebration in the atmosphere, regardless of what played out at last.
Okagwe is bouncing back sooner than we all think by God’s special grace.

We are still mourning with the immediate family of our Prince that was murdered, and deeply sympathize with those whose properties were destroyed at the peak of the issues, praying that the good Lord will comfort and restore to us all, far greater than we have lost, as He restores our community in Jesus name.

We are also assuring the good people of our community, Okagwe Ohafia, that the perpetrators of these heinous acts, will be duly brought to book and face the wrath of the law.

It is important to mention that there is never any contention on the kingship matter, but rather a few mischievous power drunk desperadoes and some external political touts chose to act insubordinately, bully and blackmail the good name of Nde Ukoji Royal Clan.

We have long maintained that the person illegally installed as the king (Ezeogo) for the past three years, in person of Mr Eti, is not the right person, and also not representing us in any form.
He is not and will never be chosen by Nde Ukoji Royal Families as our traditional ruler, based on our forefathers properly structured rotational order for equity, his criminal track record and lack of royal integrity.
The custom and prerequisite for picking the ideal king (Eze-ogo) in the Nde Ukoji Royal Clan, is not predicated on overall seniority, but rather primarily on rotational formation amongst the five (5) families of Ndea Ukoji Royal Clan, for the sake of equity, Justics and fairness. This is just to clear the air against all wrong insinuations and arguments.

So those basing their argument on overall seniority, are ignorant of how things are done in Nde Ukoji Royal Clan, and deceiving those who chose to listen to their fallacies.

Here are a few germane reasons for Mr Etti’s disqualification:

1. In Nde Ukoji Royal Clan rotational order, his father has taken their family turn, which he even also came on board to complete, when his father was too old and weak to function. You can verify.
2. He has lots of criminal track records, which almost every Tom, dick and Harry is aware of, alongside diabolic practices. A few to mention are, first, Mr Eti was convicted of criminally selling some of our community lands, during the time he stood in for his father, which our innocent fathers had to pay for, to redeem the clan image and integrity. Secondly, Way back in the year 2000, Mr Kalusha and gangs shortlisted Mr Eti as amongst the Nine (9) most fetish/diabolical persons troubling Okagwe community, and marked out to be killed, but he, Mr Agbai Ukaonu and Mr Kalu Okorie escaped while others namely Uma Onuma, Uche Onwuzi, Abgai Oji, Kalu Imo, Kalu Okoronkwo, Ogbu Mba were murdered in cold blood and set ablaze by Mr Kalu Oji, known as Kalusha and gangs. You can verify.
3. He is not in anyway within the new rules of Ohafia monarch, which states clearly that a person above 70 years and uneducated, should never be chosen to be a traditional ruler in Ohafia again. You can verify.

In view of the above reasons, we maintain that our kingship (Eze-ogo) slot is still very much vacant, until the rightful person whom we have duly chosen, endorsed and anointed by the traditional prime minister of Okagwe, is installed.

Now, In a bid to finally and properly arrest the situation, restore normalcy and sanity in our darling community, Nde Ukoji Royal Clan which comprises of the below listed families;
a. Nna Uka Ukoji family
b. Nna Achi Ukoji family
c. Nna Ume Oji Ukoji family
d. Nna Uka Oji Ukoji family
e. Nna Oji Ukoji family
Currently led by our very amiable regent Prince Kalu Oji Ukoji, hereby unanimously, unequivocally and emphatically communicate the following resolutions to the general public.

1. Nde Ukoji have chosen, endorsed and presents HRH IkeChukwu Oji Uka Ukoji, as the right candidate for king (Eze ogo) of Okagwe Ohafia, not as a messenger, slave or errand boy to Mr Eti or anybody else, as some mischievous fellows are trying to twist it.
2. Nde Ukoji affirms that Mr Oji Achi (Eti) does not have the capacity, moral right/ground and the character to represent the family, as the king (Eze Ogo) of Okagwe Ohafia, because it is not his family turn in the first place. Secondly, a man whose evil character led to his eviction and rejection from the Council of Chiefs in Okagwe during the reign of his father as the king (Ezeogo) of Okagwe, because of his cheating nature, dubious lifestyle and fetish practices. Such a man can never be allowed to represent the family at any level.
3. Nde Ukoji explicitly declares that we do not support all heinous acts of Mr Kalusha, both past and present. We have always vehemently condemned and disassociated ourselves from his atrocities. And now we have decided to make this truth public, that Mr Oji Achi (Kalusha) as popularly known, who has been parading himself as bonafide son of Nde Ukoji Family, is never from Nde Ukoji Family. Our beloved brother Prince Oji Achi Oji Ukoji explains clearly the relationship status with the man Mr Kalusha. Saying that, while his father was alive, he never told him (Prince Oji Achi Oji Ukoji) that Mr Kalusha is his son; rather it was his aunty (Ngbor) that brought Mr Kalusha into the house; in fact she was the one that named him; which is not in tandem with Okagwe or Ohafia tradition as a whole. So please let this be on record that Kalusha is not recognized in the family or clans of the Ndea Ukoji. QED!
4. Nde Ukoji respectfully uses this opportunity to plead with Ndea Nwojo Royal Family, our sister branch of Nde Olugu Royal Clan, to desist from meddling into our kingship critical decision making and affairs, just as it has never been recorded that Nde Ukoji decided for Ndea Nwojo on who they should choose. We make bold to say that this is highly unacceptable and will no longer be tolerated, even as we uphold our family mutual bonding, royal ethics, brotherly love and respects, like our forefathers maintained and taught us.
5. Ndea Ukoji strongly requests that Mr CK Udensi and Mr Emeka Ukpai, both from Nde Iguwe, and other external forces, that have also been trying to meddle into our kingship affairs and dictate what happens in our clan through Kalusha and Mr Eti, should should immediately desist from such, otherwise have us to contend with.
6. Ndea Ukoji insists that Mr Eti Must vacate the stool for HRH Ikechukwu Oji Uka Ukoji to take his rightful place. After which we shall immediately give a befitting burial for our beloved Prince Eze who they murdered, followed by appeasing those whose properties were destroyed, and alongside attending to those in prison.
7. Nde Ukoji stands for truth, justice, equity, fairness, patriotism, love, care and passionate concern of the well-being of our people and community, and we will continually advocate and mediate for the good interests of our fatherland, without any form of sentiments, prejudice, propaganda and self-ambition.
8. Nde Ukoji henceforth pledges zero tolerance on any act of banditry, threat to lives and properties in our community, and would not hesitate to prosecute perpetrators of such evil, within the ambit of the law.
9. Ndea Ukoji vows to uphold our ancestral rules guiding the sacred staff of office “Otusi”, only on the pedestal of truth. Yes, the rule says in a nutshell, that the ideal candidate to be installed as our king, MUST be anointed with the traditional processes duly administered by the Traditional Prime Minister (Nna Okagwe or kingmaker) of our land, in charge at the moment, and given the “Otusi” (the sacred staff of office), which can not be shown or given to two individuals at the same time. This we strongly believe, that our ancestors had put together in order to checkmate truth, due process, cub any form of crooked approach to the throne or stool, unnecessary contention(s) and most importantly ensure that only one right individual handles the staff of authority in our land, and rules per time. We hereby put it to those criminally claiming only, that the Otusi’s grave penalty, if shown to two individuals, will only fall on the wrong person(s) and those who defiles the traditional due process, which is already happening to those who committed the taboo as we speak. To mention but a few, the wrong person who they used in place of our traditional prime minister (Nna OKAGWE), to coronate Mr Eti, was immediately beaten by rodent (mystery rat), and he died two days after they committed the abomination. And also Mr Eti, who is wrongly occupying that stool, will attest that all tides and our ancestors are against him. We bring to your knowledge and remembrance as well, that Mr Oji Achi (Eti), sons and Kalusha had one time done an abominable thing amongst many, when they threw the same revered “Otusi” (the sacred staff of office), and the masquerade costumes of Okagwe Ohafia outside the village square. This was a huge taboo and big slap on the faces of our ancestors. Such is not supposed to be heard of any reasonable persons or true sons of Okagwe, let alone ‘Princes of the land’ or those with Blue Blood ‘Royal blood’, if they truly are. You can verify,
10. Nde Ukoji boldly declares that, any further attack, threats, harassment, intimidation or molestation of any kind, on any member of Nde Ukoji Clan and innocent Okagwe Ohafia indigene, by Mr Eti, Mr Emeka Ukpai and Kalusha’s gangsters, we will henceforth attract our full wrath, because paramount to us, are the security, lives and well-being of our people.

At this juncture, we make bold to say that whoever undermines this collective resolution of ours, and kicks against our traditional right and order on the kingship matter, is pursuing a selfish agenda or has an ulterior motive at heart, and not the good interest of our dear community; and such fellow would have us to contend with, as we will no longer tolerate any attempt to destabilize our ancestral structures and due process.

Nde Ukoji Royal Clan, as peaceful, truth oriented and justice lovers, are committed to ensuring that our fatherland, Okagwe Ohafia, regains her peace, sanity, harmony, and realigned on the path of progress at all cost.
We will not bow to unnecessary pressures, bullying and intimidations of any kind, and NO wrong candidate will EVER be forced down our throat by whosoever and whatsoever means.

In conclusion, please we encourage and implore every son and daughter of Okagwe Ohafia, old and young, home and abroad, to rise up fearlessly and relentlessly join us in taking back our community, from the hands of these detractors, put an end to every tyranny and rebuild what has been destroyed so far.
Okagwe Ohafia is the only place we can call our own fatherland and community, and it is our collective responsibility to make it habitable, homely and conducive for ourselves and children.

Victory is already ours. The light at the end of the tunnel is already beaming at us, and together we win.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation, as we work together to ensure that the glory of OKAGWE kingdom is restored as quickly as possible.

Signed:
Nde Ukoji Royal Clan Families

Nna Uka Ukoji family
Nna Achi Ukoji family
Nna Ume Oji Ukoji family
Nna Uka Oji Ukoji family
Nna Oji Ukoji family

Cc:
Department of Abia State Chieftaincy Affairs
Ohafia Council of Monarchs
Mayor of Ohafia, Chief David Onuoha Ogba
Barrister Chief Umeh Kalu (SAN)
Eze Odum Amogu (Owuwa anyanwu autonomous king)
Ohafia Improvement Union (OIU) National
OKAGWE Development Union (ODU) National
Concerned Citizens of Okagwe Ohafia
Umu mkparawa Okagwe Ohafia
Ohafia Youth Association (OYA) National
Okagwe Youth Association (OYA) National

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