January 21, (THEWILL) – Barely a few weeks after Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State demolished the business enterprise of his former friend, socialite, Myke Ikoku, for falling out with him over his governorship style, another popular figure in the state has fallen victim to the governor’s bulldozers.
Uzodinma allegedly sent his bulldozers to demolish the palatial home of activist, Ralph Uwazuruike, the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), a group canvassing for the secession and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria.
The MASSOB leader alleged that Uzodinma connived with Archbishop Lucious Ugorji of the Catholic Diocese of Owerri to demolish and bomb his house to rubles using explosive devices.
Uwazuruike said he had been living in the house since 2012, adding that he was singled out for punishment. He alleged that the cleric once called him and indicated interested in the parcel of land on which he built the house.
In 2016, he alleged that some people came up to him and said that the land where he built his house belonged to them. So, last year, he claimed they obtained a fake judgement from a court without any notice to him. He would later appealed the said court judgement and questioned the veracity of the judgement.
Uwazuruike also claimed that Uzodinma sent Prof. Maurice Iwu, a former Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to him asking that he should discuss and dialogue with the Archbishop. According to him, despite sending copies of the order of the Court of Appeal to the governor, copying the Director of Security Services, DSS, and the Imo state Commissioner of police, his home was demolished.
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