Arthur Eze’s Latest Plan to Unleash Terror on his Nephews Exposed
Having serially lost in the last one year in his bids to use the courts and EFCC to intimidate, trample upon human rights of his nephews and put them in the coolers, Princes Olisa and Onyeka Eze, Prince Arthur Eze has allegedly gone ballistic to wreak havoc on these sons of his late younger brother by colluding with the police and using the prime government establishment as a pawn in his hand.
According to a family source of the younger Ezes, the latest of Arthur Eze’s unrepentant assault was on 17th of November, when after another court session at Federal High Court, Abuja, some police officer, allegedly at the instigation of the beleagued oil mogul, came to arrest Prince Onyeka Nnadozie Eze.
As revealed by the family source, the policemen came under the guise that Onyeka attempted to kidnap one of Arthur Eze’s staff members, Yahaya Mohammed, a cleaner, earlier employed by him (Onyeka) and whom he has been personally taking care of. It was also gathered that Yahaya was overwhelmed by the police officers and put under duress to make false statement of the fake kidnap attempt against Onyeka. As also revealed, because Nwabu Maduka and Christian Ugwu, other two drivers of Prince Onyeka, accompanied him to see Yahaya’s family after his phone number went dead, they were made to join him in the police detention.
Meanwhile, Onyeka was released on 19th of November from police cell after he had met the bail conditions and was told to report backon 23rd and when he came as instructed by the police, he was re-arrested together with Nwabu Maduka and Christian Ugwu and detained without informing the lawyers earlier involved in granting him bail.
The next day, 24th of November and quite unaware that Arthur Eze had made arrangement he should be ferried by Keffi Prison warders to the Correctional Centre, Onyeka was taken to Wuse Magistrate Court at Wuse Zone 6, before Justice Musa Sadiq who later granted him bail even as Arthur Eze’s lawyer insisted he should be reminded in prison for no offence committed by him.
In a similar development and also allegedly with the connivance of Prince Arthur Eze, when the unsubstantiated matter of impropriety against his nephews, which is still on-going at Federal High Court and Appeal Court in Enugu, came up before Justice Osho Adebiyi, at Gudu High Court, some men in plain clothes, came to arrest Olisa Eze, elder brother of Onyeka.
In an exclusive telephone conversation, Olisa’s wife, Amarachi Eze, said that since attempted kidnap saga and eventual arrest of her husband, she has been crying out that nothing should happen to him and if anything happens to him, Arthur Eze and the Nigerian Police Force should be held responsible. The situation is more pathetic in their village in Anambra State where Olisa’s aged mother is allegedly crying day and night ceaselessly; calling on the spirit of her late husband to rise and intervene and rescue her sons from the diabolical plans of Arthur Eze to eliminate them.
As it will be recalled, Olisa’s wife had early this year written a petition to former IG of Police on Arthur Eze’s terror against her family, which, of course, was swept under the carpet.
In this petition signed by Mrs. Eze alleged connivance between Prince Arthur Eze and some police officers in Enugu for “impunity, brute use power, abuse of office, criminal intimidation and conspiracy; acts capable of breaching/rupturing of public peace and unlawful cum criminal trespass on their private properties by the police officers”.
As she petitioned, her husband houses at No. 9a/9b S.G. Ugwuanyi Crescent, Phase 1 and No. 174 Ukpata Crescent Phase 1; Golf Estate Enugu, were unlawfully invaded on the 3rd and 11th of January 2021 by Prince Eze’s hatchet policemen. As also alleged in the petition her husband younger brother’s properties at No. 1 Victor Nwodo Close, GRA Enugu, No. 22 Uduma Street, New Haven, Enugu and at No. 3, St. Felix Avenue, Trans Ekulu, Enugu respectively were not spared in the assault.
Similarly, Prince Arthur Eze’s unprovoked and unjustifiable persecution against his nephews was intimidation of his (Arthur Eze’s) two account officers in an Enugu branch of Fidelity Bank to implicate Prince Olisa Eze on a 250, 000 thousand dollar Cheque earlier duly authorized by him (Arthur Eze) and given to him (Prince Olisa Eze) to give the oil moguls’ (Arthur Eze’s) business partners in Equatorial Guinea before their apparently instigated ordeal in the hand of EFCC operatives in November last year. As it turned out, because these bank officers refused Arthur Eze’s overtures to implicate his nephew, they were invited to EFCC headquarters in Abuja twice for interrogations earlier in the year.
In the same vein, the Commissioner of Police, Force Headquarters in Abuja, through its Legal Department, was petitioned by Charles Jibuaku Esq., another legal counsel of the younger Ezes over “Fractionalization of Complaints and Gross Abuse of Criminal Justice Administration system” on April 6, this year.
In the petition, Jibuaku Esq. highlighted that his clients were facing charges on a single complaint at Federal High Court, Abuja and FCT High Court… and the two Charges at the two courts were pending and adjourned whilst his clients had been on bail granted by the courts ‘after earlier being maliciously detained in EFFC custody at the bidding of their said uncle, Engr. Arthur Eze, from 11th of November 2020 to 24th December, despite extant ORDERS of the FCT High Court of 11th December 2020 granting them bail.
Concluding, Charles Jibuaku Esq. implored the Commissioner of Police to “use his good offices to advise the Police hierarchy on the stance of law regarding fractionalization of complaints and gross abuse of Criminal Justice Administration System and the employment of the Police and any other security apparatus of the State as instrument of oppression” of law-abiding citizens of Federal Republic of Nigeria like his clients.
The latest diabolical moves by Prince Arthur Eze to nail the sons of his late younger brother, Prince Alfred Eze, using the police, are in the long list of unprovoked assaults on Princes Olisa and Onyeka Eze since November last year for unproven allegations of misappropriation of his company money till date.
As, it stands, the Eze family feud may not come to an end soon as it is being alleged that Arthur Eze was heard boasting to buy the Police, EFCC and any judge in order to jail them by hook or crook and that they will spend this Christmas in prison. The situation is seemingly being aggravated as the oil mogul has allegedly been going around every night with cash; accompanied by his alleged girl friend, Mrs. Amaka Oraka (nee Igu), with heavy cash in order to perfect and actualise his evil plans against his oppressed nephews.
Arthur Eze, the same man EFCC claims it has been investigating for tax evasion over the years, has allegedly vowed to deploy everything at his disposal to make sure that his nephews are permanently eliminated from existence. Additionally, it is alleged that he has engaged some killer squads to get Prince Olisa Eze and Prince Onyeka Eze eliminated by all means.
Only last month, specifically on 3rd of November; the exposure of Prince Athur Eze’s unholy war against his own blood brother’s sons for no justification or legally justified reason(s) came to a climax when the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, was petitioned by Barrister Uche Chukwuma, one of the legal counsels to the younger Ezes, over what was been termed “Abuse of Judicial Office, Pronouncement/Delivery of Judgment over Matters Already Decided and Subject of Appeal in Appeal Nos. Ca/E/155/2021, Ca/E/156/2021 by A Lower Court, The Use Of Brute Power/Arm-Twisting Of Justice I. N Buba And The EFCC By Engr. Prince Arthur Eze against Princes Olisa And Onyeka Eze”.
Giving a summary of the cases/matters in his petition to the Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad; Barrister Uche Chukwuma pointed out that Prince Engr. Arthur Eze, on, or about the 11th November 2020, using the instrumentality of the law, had Prince Olisaebuka Okwuchukwu Eze and Prince Onyeka Nnadozie Eze, incarcerated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) till January “after the said Prince Engr. Arthur Eze has boasted that not even the courts can save them from what he can do to them.”
Barrister Chukwuma stating further in his petition to the Chief Justice of the Federation, maintained that “To circumvent the realisation of these judgment, Prince Engr. Arthur Eze, in connivance/unholy alliance with some judiciary officers in Enugu Federal High Court, Enugu, despite the fact that judgments have been procured on same subject matter in the FCT HIGH COURT, hurriedly instituted the following cases in 2021:
EFCC V. ONYEKA NNADOZIE EZE & ANOR. FHC/EN/CS/84/2021 and ONYEKA NNADOZIE EZE & ANOR V. EFCC CA/EN/156/2021 wherein JUSTICE I. N BUBA granted an ORDER FOR FORFEITURE on Princes Olisa And Onyeka Eze’s properties located in ENUGU now the subject of Appeal in the appeal cases in EFCC V. OLISAEBUKA OKWUCHUKWU EZE & ANOR. FHC/EN/CS/83/2021
OLISAEBUKA OKWUCHUKWU EZE & ANOR V. EFCC CA/EN/155/2021
Seeking the esteemed intervention of the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria as a SAVE OUR SOUL plea, Barrister Chukwuma asserted that “The way and manner Justice I. N. BUBA granted the said forfeiture order still leave his Clients in utter disbelief,” stating that being mindful of their constitutional rights, an Appeal against the forfeiture of their properties in Enugu has already been exercised. Finally, the petitioning lawyer informed Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad that “it is a notorious fact, especially for those who are closer to Arthur Eze; that Justice I. N Buba is a VERY CLOSE AND GOOD FRIEND of PRINCE ENGR. ARTHUR EZE who occasionally pays FRIENDLY VISITS to the revered UKPO HIGH PRINCE.” For instance, the Judge’s email request to pay visit to him on the 11/08/2020 is one of these indicators to this fact.
According to Barrister Chukwuma, the email request by Justice I. N Buba to Prince Arthur Eze which has been made available to the media is a serious ethical issue that requires investigation.
To close watchers of the Arthur Eze’s drama, the petition to the CJ is unarguably the climax of Prince Arthur Eze and his nephews’ family feud that began last year when Princes Olisaebuka Eze and Onyeka Eze, were arrested by officials of the EFCC on Wednesday, November, 11, 2020 as a result of a personal letter Prince Arthur Eze wrote to then Acting EFCC chairman of the Anti-graft body on November 6, 2020; alleging breach of trust by them against him and his company money without any evident.
And, based on the trumped up allegation, they (Princes Olisaebuka Eze and Onyeka Eze) were in the EFCC custody for more than two months on trumped up charges of embezzlement which were never proven in any court of law in Nigeria and in flagrant disregard of an Abuja High Court presided over by Justice S.B Belgore, on Friday, December 11, ordering immediate release of the two nephews of Arthur Eze.
As it will be recalled, giving the Enrolment Order “In the matter of application for redress by the applicants for infringement of their fundamental human rights”, between Prince Olisa Eze and Onyeka Eze and EFCC and Prince Arthur Eze, Justice S.B Belgore also ordered immediate unfreezing of all the Applicants’ (Princes Olisaebuka Eze and Onyeka Eze’s) bank accounts. In the scanned photo copies of the Order served on EFCC and Prince Arthur Eze and made available to the media, the Order for their immediate release from EFCC custody and unfreezing of their accounts, was based on the Motion which was filled by Anthony O. Okpalah Esq. with Motion Number M12891/2020 and dated 9th December 2020, in the High Court of Abuja Federal Capital Territory, Apo, Abuja.
Eventually in the ensuing legal battle for courts to right the wrong of injustice of Princes Olisaebuka Eze’s illegal detention and that of his brother, Prince Onyeka Eze, the Abuja High Court also presided over by Hon. Justice S. B. Belgore awarded Ten Million Naira (N10,000,000) against EFCC and Prince Arthur Eze “jointly and severally being exemplary damages for flagrant and oppressive contravention of Prince Olisa Eze’s fundamental human rights”.
Delivering his judgment on June 23, 2021, Justice Belgore based his verdict on “an Originating Motion number M/1289/2020, dated 9/12/20,” which was filed on the same day by Prince Olisa Okwuchukwu Eze and Mrs. Amarachi Chinonso Eze, suing Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, and Prince (Engr.) Arthur Eze for violation of their fundamental human rights.
Also in his judgment, Justice Belgore ordered EFCC to unfreeze the bank accounts of Prince Olisa Eze with Ecobank, Fidelity Bank Ltd and Guaranty Trust Bank Plc. In the same way, the court granted “an order of injunction restraining both EFCC and Prince Arthur Eze from deploying the anti-graft Agency to infringe, howsoever, on the fundamental human rights of Prince Olisa Eze to “fair hearing, freedom of movement, right to privacy/family, right to personal liberty and freedom from compulsory acquisition of property on the account of Prince Arthur Eze’s fabled suspicion of misappropriation of funds.”
Likewise, Justice Belgore gave an order “compelling both EFCC and Prince Arthur Eze to immediately release to Olisa Eze his International Passport and personal chantel, including phones, laptops and jewelries”. The court therefore awarded the “Sum of N10,000,000 (Ten Million Naira) against EFCC and Prince Arthur Eze jointly and severally being exemplary damages for flagrant and oppressive contravention of fundamental human rights of Mrs. Amarachi Chinonso Eze, Prince Olisa Eze’s wife.
In a similar dimension, Prince Onyeka Eze secured another judgment against EFCC and Prince Arthur Eze on the flagrant violation of his fundamental human rights. On Monday, September 20, 2021, the legal battle between Prince Onyeka Nnadozie Eze, Prince Arthur Eze and Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, came to a climax with a judgment equally delivered by Hon. Justice Suleiman B. Belgore at a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
In the SUIT NO: FCT/HC/CM/12892/2020, dated 20-09-2021, eleven out of the 12 reliefs sought by Prince Onyeka Eze against violation of his fundamental human rights by EFCC in connivance with his uncle, Prince Arthur Eze, were granted and N10 million Naira was also awarded in his favour as compensation.
In all of these, apart from their release from EFCC’s illegal detention; all the Court Orders and judgments were blatantly disregarded by the EFCC and Prince Arthur Eze.
To worsen EFCC and Arthur Ezes’s obvious disregard and disdain for law, lawful court orders and judgments, Prince Arthur Eze rechanneled his efforts at making life uncomfortable for his younger nephews to Enugu with the connivance of some elements in the State’s Command of the Nigeria Police. This was epitomized by a petition to Inspector General of Police by Mrs. Amarachi Eze, wife of Prince Olisa Eze, seeking for police protection for her family and Prince Onyeka Eze’s family.
Obviously as a ploy to circumvent the legal process going on in Abuja which he couldn’t influence and to further make life unbearable for Prince Olisa Eze and my family and family of his brother, Prince Arthur Eze changed his plan with obvious collusion with Mr. Justice I.N Buba of an Enugu Federal High.
As evidenced in the said mail Justice I.N Buba sent to Prince Arthur Eze on August 11, 2020, which has already been sent to the media, Justice Buba has not only being his ally, but a willing tool in the judicial drama climaxed in judicial process superintended over by him which produced what has been tagged “Cash and Carry” order of final forfeiture of multi-million Naira properties belonging Prince Olisa Eze, his brother, Prince Onyeka Eze, on 14th of October 2021 in Enugu to which an Appeal against was immediately effected by both of them.
Investigations revealed that close watchers of the protracted feud have expressed shock over the Ukpo Anambra State born oil mogul’s sustained assaults on his nephews which have defilled all interventions by the family’s well-wishers in the whole Southeastern Nigeria and nationally; making many of them to conclude that there must be some other real reason(s) behind the whole saga that began in November last year.
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