By Eche Nwaobasi
Olisa Chukwurah, a Port-Harcourt-based business man who hails from Onitsha, Anambra State, has alleged threats to his life by his Kinsman, one Chief Francis Anyakwo, over an alleged business deal.
Briefing newsmen in Onitsha, Tuesday, Chukwurah alleged that Chief Anyakwo, whom he described as his ‘blood brother’, has been using the men of the Nigeria Police to invade his houses in Port-Harcout and Onitsha in his bid to arrest, humiliate and cow him down over a business deal he had with him which he also alleged that Chief Anyakwo derailed in honouring his own part of the deal.
He said he was also shocked that he is being harassed despite an existing court order restraining him and Chief Anyakwo from taking further action in respect of the matter.
While appealing to the Police Service Commission, Human Rights Organizations and other well-meaning individuals in his community to protect him, he lamented that the invasion of his houses in Port-Harcourt and Onitsha ‘are all aimed to intimidate him to forget the huge sum of money owed him by Chief Anyakwo’.
Chukwurah displayed a certified court judgment delivered by one Justice Ikeogu of the Anambra State High Court of Awka Judicial Division in a Suit No. 0/MISC250/2023 0/1314M/2023 between Olisa Chukwurah as the applicant and Mr Francis Anyakwo, commissioner of Police Intelligence Bureau, Lagos State, DSP Ibitoye .O. Rueus, and Inspector General of Police as respondents.
Chukwura’s lawyer, Barrister F.A. Ogbuli, noted that the refusal of officers of the Nigeria Police to obey the court order restraining them from ‘further harassment, intimidation and constant threats of arrest on his client amounts to contempt of the court’.
He said, “This desperate bid to arrest my client at all cost despite a pending court order for stay of execution may be a sinister ploy to harm my client while in detention over a contractual relationship that involves a civil dispute between my client and supposedly his brother who is from the same extended family in Onitsha.”
Efforts made to hear from Anyakwo through his cell phone were not successful, just as numerous text messages sent to him were not replied to before going to the press.
