No fewer than 30 lawyers have indicated
their willingness to challenge the
demolition of the Upper Class Hotel,
Onitsha, owned by Chief Bonaventure
Mokwe, on the orders of the Anambra State
Governor, Peter Obi.
The governor last Friday ordered the
demolition following the discovery of two
human heads and some firearms in the
hotel, located at the Old Market Road,
Onitsha, last Thursday.
The lawyers, in their separate petitions to
the Inspector-General of Police and the
Commissioner of Police, Anambra State,
described the demolition as "hasty and a
display of jungle justice."
Leading the lawyers were Dr. M. Umenweke
and F. Ibeh.
The lawyers, who said Mokwe was known
in Onitsha, added that there was no proper
investigation before the demolition took
place.
They said they would approach the High
Court in Onitsha on Monday (today) to
enforce Mokwe's fundamental rights as
guaranteed by law.
In one of the petitions entitled, 'A trump up
allegation against Chief Bonaventure
Mokwe,' Kachi Bielu and Co. appealed to the
police leadership to organise a full scale
investigation into the matter in order to
unravel the persons behind the "frame up"
against their client.
It read, "It is our instruction to appeal to
you to use your good offices to send a
crack team from the Force Criminal
Investigation Department or the
monitoring unit and transfer the case to a
police formation, where the case will be
properly handled and investigated."
Also, Umenweke and Ibeh, leading over 30
other lawyers, described as stage-managed
the
"arrest, detention and humiliation" of
Mokwe.
The lawyers alleged that some people
"smuggled" the human skulls into the
premises in order to incriminate the hotel
proprietor.
They further demanded to know who
made the complaint to the police and why
government should demolish the hotel,
which they said was Mokwe's only
evidence.
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