In a 19-paragraph statement of protection filed by Ojukwu Transport Limited and seven other ones before Justice Funmilayo Atilade of the Lagos High Court, the family identically demanded:
verification from Bianca that her two children, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu are biological children of Odimegwu- Ojukwu.
The other defendants are Prof. Joseph Ojukwu, Engr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, Lotanna Putalora Ojukwu,
Dr Patrick Ojukwu, Arc. Edward Ojukwu, Lota Akajiora Ojukwu and Mrs. Massey Udegbe (doing business under Massey Udegbe & Company).
Bianca had in match No: LD/1539/2012 filed on behalf of her two under-aged children, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu (claimants), wants the court to:
declare that her children are entitled to the possession and occupation of the house known as No. 29, Oyinkan Abayomi road, Ikoyi Lagos, until the harmonisation of the administration and administration of the assets of the first defendant (OTL).
At the resumed hearing of the suit yesterday, counsel to Bianca and her young kids, was not in court which necessitated fairness Atilade to adjourn the match till December 10 for adoption of in writing locations on a Motion on observe searching to hold back the defendants from the property in argument.
Bianca’s young kids had through their solicitor; Chris Ezugwu, prayed the court to affirm as illicit the risk of forceful ejection from 29, Oyinkan Abayomi road, by the defendants.
In addition, they urged the court to declare that they are entitled to own the following house, namely:
No 13, Hawksworth Road, Ikoyi (now renowned as No. 13 Ojora Road);
No 32A, Commercial Avenue, Yaba, Lagos;
No 30, Gerard street, Ikoyi, Lagos;
No. 30, McPherson Avenue, Ikoyi.
Bianca’s young kids said all through the time span their father was labouring to retrieve the properties from the government, the second to the seventh defendants “never performed any role in the struggle neither assisted financially or else to the realisation of the struggle.”
in addition to, the claimant is asking for an alignment of court holding back the defendants, their agencies or privies from interfering with the claimants’possesion and control of the properties.
But, in their declaration of protection, the 1st to the 7th defendants through their solicitor, George Uwechue, SAN, averred that the subscribers of the memorandum of association of Ojukwu Transport restricted (1st defendant) at incorporation in 1952 were L. P. Ojukwu and Betram Chukwuemeka Obi, supplementing that the late Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu and one Prof. Joseph Ojukwu (2nd defendant) were subsequent nominated as directors in 1953.
They asserted that late Chukwuemeka Odimegwu- Ojukwu thereafter ceased to be a controller of the company prior to the Nigerian civil conflict and was reappointed as a controller on December 16, 2005 while the 3rd and 4th defendants were nominated directors in 1954 and 2005 respectively.
They supplemented that the assertionants’ declaration of assertion comprised tissues of lies and distorted details alleging that Bianca who instituted the suit, “being greedy sensed that she could contain unto the company’s properties.”
NationalMirror