The lingering tussle over who occupies the vacant conventional stool in Mburubu Kingdom, in Nkanu East Native Authorities Space of Enugu State has taken a brand new dimension.
That is as a Excessive Court docket sitting within the state has ordered Chief Jerry Patrick Onuokaibe to cease parading himself because the Igwe-elect of the group.
The order was sequel to a movement ex parte introduced earlier than Justice J.I.C Okibe by six plaintiffs by means of their lawyer, Barr Ike Ozor.
Justice Okibe ordered different defendants/respondents- Arch Chijioke Nwachukwu and Obinna Okonkwo, representing Mburubu Normal Meeting, their brokers or some other particular person to cease claiming or parading Onuokaibe because the Igwe-elect of Mburubu City pending the dedication of the ex parte movement.
The plaintiffs had by means of a movement ex parte sought an order of interim injunction restraining the third defendant (Onuokaibe), “from parading himself or holding out himself because the Igwe-elect of Mburubu City and the 1 and a couple of defendants or some other particular person or group from Mburubu City from addressing or referring to the defendant as Igwe-elect of Mburub City pending the dedication of the movement on discover filed together with the applying.”
In a ruling, the decide held that: “the movement ex parte is granted as prayed.
“That Order of Interim Injunction is hereby granted restraining the third Defendant from parading himself or holding out himself because the Igwe-elect of Mburubu City and the first and 2nd Defendants or some other particular person or group from Mburubu City from addressing or referring to the Defendant as Igwe-elect of Mburubu City pending the dedication of movement on discover filed together with this utility.”
The court docket adjourned the swimsuit to March 22, 2024, for listening to.
