Ebonyi Family Petitions DSS, IGP Over Threat To Life

Members of the Njoku Chita household successful Umuchima, Uburu, successful Ohaozara section authorities country of Ebonyi State person petitioned the Department of State Services (DSS) and the inspector-general of constabulary (IGP) implicit allegations of persistent grabbing of their ancestral lands.

The household called connected the information agencies and  the Presidency to analyse and support the full assemblage from immoderate suspected hoodlums who are besides threatening to termination them if they don’t vacate their ancestral lands.

Part of the details of the petition by the family’s ineligible counsel, Silas Onu, Esq, Principal Consultant astatine Shield & Sword Consult, dated October 6, 2025, and sighted by LEADERSHIP, stated that  the household had been cajoled into relinquishing a ample expanse of onshore nether the content that it was their ain sacrifice for the improvement of the community, including the contiguous onshore wherever the David Umahi Federal University of Technology (DUFUTH) is presently situated.

While claiming that the DUFUTH was built connected forcefully confiscated lands, a ample portion of which belongs to the Njoku Chita family, the household said they had accepted their destiny for the bully of the full community.

They, however, lamented that contempt their sacrifices, they were besides cajoled

into surrendering much of their household lands for the assemblage enlargement successful the involvement of bid and “development”.

They are, however, calling for the national government’s involution arsenic their lone surviving ancestral location has been marked with a assertion that a national roadworthy volition walk done it.

The assemblage noted that the curate of Works, Engr. David Umahi had assured them that  “Njoku Chita” lands are “Not portion of” the annexure 1 roadworthy project.

They besides alleged that owed to the ongoing disagreements arsenic shown above, youths from neighbouring villages and communities were deployed to physically onslaught persons who person legitimately owned oregon purchased lands successful their community.

The household expressed fears that the hoodlums, who are not acrophobic of information agencies successful Ebonyi State, volition transportation retired their threats connected them if the presidency, done the Police and the DSS, does not travel to their rescue.