{"id":14541,"date":"2017-05-27T03:53:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T03:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=14541"},"modified":"2017-05-27T03:53:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T03:53:13","slug":"idumuje-ugboko-crisis-one-killed-as-delta-cp-calls-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=14541","title":{"rendered":"IDUMUJE-UGBOKO CRISIS: ONE KILLED AS DELTA CP CALLS FOR PEACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Godwin Udoh: All fingers are pointing to a prominent figure in Idumuje-Ugboko for importing hoodlums from nearby towns and his mother\u2019s village following the killing of an unidentified youth, invasion of the home of the Iyase of Idumuje-Ugboko (Prime Minister), Chief Chris Ogwu and disruption of academic activities at one of the Secondary Schools in the town.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected hoodlums who have taken over the palace invaded the home of the Iyase where his cars were smashed and broke into his apartment destroying properties worth over N2 million while himself was whisked to the Palace where he was beaten in the front of the Crown Prince.<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of <span data-term=\"goog_1573009855\">Wednesday<\/span>, an unidentified corpse was discovered at the Market Square that led to the closure of shops and women were running for their dear lives.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that <span data-term=\"goog_1573009856\">on Wednesday<\/span> afternoon, another set of hoodlums invaded the Idumuje-Ugboko secondary school and disrupted academics activities, shooting sporadically, where students and teachers were seen running for their dear lives.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Trouble started, on 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February, 2017 when the erstwhile King, Obi Albert Nwoko III joined his ancestors as announced by the council of Chiefs that led to the power tussle by the two sons, Prince Uche Nwoko the 17-year old secondary school student whose mother is from Idumuje-Ugboko and Prince Nonso Nwoko whose mother is from Ubulu-Uku on who will become the next King.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary, Land Allocation Committee, Kennedy Iloh, alleged that Prince Nonso imported thugs from nearby village who came at night and kidnapped him from his house, took him to the Palace where he was thoroughly beaten. \u201cI was kept in their custody for 3 hours before I managed to escape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason for this harassment by Prince Nonso is because we questioned the way our Obi died. Obi Albert Nwoko ate in the Morning and went upstairs to relax. Two men later came in, went upstairs and stayed for one hour and came downstairs calling out to the children that their father is dead. They thereafter gathered some relations of the immediate family and while some demanded to see the body of their late father, this same men profusely refused and locked up the whole place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Immediately, they invited a Benin based lawyer called Mbanefo because they got wind that the family wanted to have a meeting and prepare for the burial. The lawyer canceled the arrangements and said the King should be buried immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=13285&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrince Nonso Nwoko was crowned the same night with a New Cap and a New Dress meaning that they have prepared for this event, probably to kill him and crown him as the next King. That was how Nonso imported people to guide him and puncture other persons that will oppose him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to our corespondent, the former President General, Idumuje-Ugboko Development Union (IDU) 2008-2012, Eliashi Walters said\u00a0Ned Nwoko has no Business with the throne and he is not a candidate to the throne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe throne of Idumuje-Ugboko is by qualification, it is not by sponsorship. By our history\u00a0and\u00a0our tradition, it is the surviving first son of the departed\u00a0Obi whose mother must be an indigene.<\/p>\n<p>The two contenders is the Prince Nonso Nwoko, whose mother is from Ubulu-Uku and Prince Uche Nwoko whose mother is from Idumuie-Ugboko and if you go down\u00a0memory lane,\u00a0from the first\u00a0Obi, Obi Nwoko\u00a0I, his\u00a0first Son Prince Omoje never ascended the throne because\u00a0his mother was not an\u00a0Idumuje-Ugboko person but Prince Omoje married an\u00a0Ugboko person knowing what he suffered why he did\u00a0not ascend the throne.<\/p>\n<p>Obi Ikeze\u00a0Nwoko II, the mother was from Atuma village in Idumuje-Ugboko.\u00a0when Obi Ikeze died in 1955, the issue\u00a0of succession\u00a0came up because the actual first son died. Now it fell on the then Prince\u00a0Albert\u00a0Nwoko, the\u00a0argument\u00a0came between 1955 to 1981 (26 years) which placed\u00a0Idumuje-Ugboko in a regency council because the mother of the\u00a0surviving\u00a0first son\u00a0was\u00a0not from\u00a0Idumuje-Ugboko, she came from a village called\u00a0Ugbodu.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The prince who\u00a0ought\u00a0to be the king,\u00a0Prince\u00a0Demax\u00a0Nwoko declined\u00a0the throne. The person that was interested,\u00a0his\u00a0mother\u00a0was was not from Ugboko but from Idumuje-Unor. Now the elders and the chiefs now sat and agreed that he\u00a0(Late King Albert Nwoko III)\u00a0must marry a woman from his native land. That was what led\u00a0late\u00a0Obi Albert marry an\u00a0Idumuje-Ugboko woman after his\u00a0coronation\u00a0in 1981.\u00a0At first, the\u00a0two women\u00a0he married\u00a0gave him no child, he then married another woman from\u00a0the same town,\u00a0that gave him Prince Uche Nwoko.<\/p>\n<p>Although the mother of Albert Nwoko, the late Obi was not from\u00a0Idumuje-Ugboko but\u00a0the proviso which made him king was the\u00a0waiver that he marries an\u00a0Idumuje-Ugboko woman,\u00a0gave him the\u00a0Kingship.<\/p>\n<p>The issue on ground is that, Nonso Nwoko is been accused of several crimes and he has served two-years\u00a0imprisonment for Treason and Felony, also he has series of cases in court pending. Such a person cannot be crowned a king as the custom demands. The elders says even if they would be a waiver on Nonso as his late father had, Prince Nonso has a pending case with the Delta State police.<\/p>\n<p>No community will allow a\u00a0fellow that has criminal pending cases\u00a0in court\u00a0to be their king\u2026 if you have dishonesty that carries not less than two years imprisonment, it is serious offence and if you have any title in the town, you will be stripped off it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Idumuje.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14542\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Idumuje-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Idumuje-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Idumuje.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, CP Zanna M. Ibrahim <strong><em>psc<\/em><\/strong> has called for peace in Idumuje-Ugboko. The CP\u2019s call, Friday 26<sup>th<\/sup> May, 2017, came against the backdrop of ongoing crisis in the hitherto quiet village over issue that can be easily resolved. The CP called on the belligerents to sheathe their swords and give room for peaceful and meaningful dialogue to take place towards the enthronement of peace and safety in the village. The CP, who noted that security agencies have so far exercised utmost restraint in the handling of the crisis because of the need to avoid any untoward repercussions, ordered that thugs and cultists mobilized to foment trouble in the community should immediately be kept off the streets, and innocent citizens be allowed right of way and access to their lawful endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>The CP, while appealing for a cessation forthwith of rumor-mongering, hostilities and harassments of any kind, also enjoined stakeholders to honor the invitation for a peace meeting, extended to them by the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge Zone \u20185\u2019 Benin scheduled to hold at the AIG\u2019s office in Benin, on Thursday, 1<sup>st<\/sup>June, 2017, at <span data-term=\"goog_1573009858\">10am<\/span> with a view to finding an acceptable and lasting solution to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The CP finally urged the people to heed wise counsel as security agencies may be compelled to use force as a last resort if the crisis situation persists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DSP. ANIAMAKA ANDREW<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,<\/p>\n<p>DELTA STATE COMMAND.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Godwin Udoh: All fingers are pointing to a prominent figure in Idumuje-Ugboko for importing hoodlums from nearby towns and his mother\u2019s village following the killing of an unidentified youth, invasion of the home of the Iyase of Idumuje-Ugboko (Prime Minister), Chief Chris Ogwu and disruption of academic activities at one of the Secondary Schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3822,3820,3821,3823],"class_list":["post-14541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-chief-chris-ogwu","tag-idumuje-ugboko","tag-kennedy-iloh","tag-obi-albert-nwoko-iii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Idumuje.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-3Mx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14543,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541\/revisions\/14543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}