April 14, (THEWILL)- Fred Ajudua is now a born-again Christian committed to winning souls for Jesus Christ. He is the pastor of an unnamed church in Ibusa, his hometown in Delta State.
Ajudua seems to have come out of hibernation after spending several years behind bars and in courthouses trying to extricate himself from paying heavy penalties for his past mistakes. For a while, the 63-year-old was a political activist who used his connection and influence to decide the political outcome of those who care to pay homage to him.
Like Lagos-based Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, the Chairman of Parks Management Committee, Ajudua, who likes to refer to himself as the ‘Architect of Modern Ibusa,’ employed the politics of intimidation, thuggery, violence to achieve his political goals and many dared not complain, at least openly.
As soon as the election season was over, he embraced a new venture as a land grabber. He was accused of land grabbing by Akwukwu Igbo residents and those of Ogbe-Iyase quarters in Akwukwu-Igbo of Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. The residents claim that some persons in the community were conniving to grant him power of attorney to sell their lands. The residents at some point formed a protest group and pleaded with the Governor of the state, Sheriff Oborevwori, to assist in dissuading Ajudua from taking over their farmlands to avoid crisis and bloodshed in the community.
After seeing that the state government wasn’t doing their bidding, some of the protesters got a court injunction restraining Ajudua from entering some portions of land, specifically the ones situated at and known as Umusaigba Farmland by Enugwu Atakpo Ibusa, behind Asaba airport. Fred ignored the court injunction and continued to trespass into the land, using agents of a real estate development firm, Property World Africa Network (PWAN Plus).
What is worse is that the firm continued to advertise and sell some portions of the land which is a subject matter of litigation to unsuspecting members of the public. The aggrieved persons filed another motion and got another interim injunction restraining Ajudua and his agents from trespassing pending the determination of the motion on notice. Perhaps having found Christ now, old things will now finally pass away.
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