A Director of Ojukwu Transport Company Limited has said the wife of the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca, has no place on the directorship or trusteeship of the company.
Director, Mr. Ifeukwu Ojukwu, said on Monday that since OTL was owned by the late Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the late Biafran warlord could not dictate who the trustees or directors of the company should be.
Ojukwu, who was the Ikemba of Nnewi, had directed, in his Will, that Bianca, should replace him as a trustee of OTL.
Ifeukwu said, “Bianca is neither a trustee member nor a Director of OTL and it is good to note that OTL is a different property from the things the late Ikemba Ojukwu had and the directorship cannot be transferred through a Will.”
The clarification by Ifeukwu, who is based in Boston, United States, came as counsel for the late Ikemba, Chief Emeka Onyemelukwe, insisted that the Will read last Friday at the Enugu State High Court Registrar was authentic and sacrosanct.
Onyemelukwe, who was reacting to a claim by Emeka Ojukwu Jnr. that the Will was manipulated, said the Will was registered in the Enugu High Court on July 9, 2005, while the codicil, which was to give details and correct any mistakes in the Will, was dated December 16, 2009.
Onyemelukwe, who tendered documents at a press conference in Enugu to back his argument, stated that he had been close to the late Ojukwu since his return from exile in Cote d’Ivoire in 1982.
He said all Ojukwu’s legal papers were still with him, including those of properties and chattels willed to Emeka Jnr, who claimed he did not know him as his father’s lawyer or friend.
Meanwhile, Ojukwu Jnr. has taken over his father’s residence in Nnewi, “according to the Igbo tradition that the first son would inherit his father’s house and compound on the event of his death.”
Ojukwu (Jnr.) said even if the Will had not covered the Nnewi residence, it was traditionally statutory that the first son inherits his father’s house.
He also said other contents of the Will could be constested in court.
(Punch)
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ReplyDeletewhat is wrong with Ibo people generally? why are they wicked against women? it is a known fact that the Ibo culture does not respect a girl child or women....I think we need to change if we must move forward as an ethnic group.
ReplyDeleteAre the family members angry that the man willed his shares in the company to his wife?
This is a lesson for all men who disobey GOD by loving their families more than their wife.
My general advise to all men is,give things to ur wife or rather do things in your wife and children's names while u are still alive as wolves will always be there to block them in your demise.
Remember, 'a man's enemies are people of his household'.....according to the holy bible.
Igbo tradition is characterized by robbing hapless widows of their late husband's property. Not even the children of the deceased children is taken into consideration. If it is not the deceased parents it is the siblings scrambling over "spoils." I will not be surprised if Bianca is compelled to drink the bathe water of her husband's corps to prove she did not kill him.
ReplyDeleteNow, you people should not start to disgracing yourselves or your fathers'. You' ve enough to last you and your children! Is only in Nigeria that no body loses an Election nor any WILL ever authentic!
ReplyDeleteSafari and co u guys are totally prejudiced and myopic and its cos of de likes of u dat dis country has to devide so dat every ethnic group will be on her own.So its only in Ibo land dat tings like dis happen,i live in de north ,Nasarawa state precisely and tings like dis happen everytime and de people involved even go to de media.Ojukwu is a public figure and his case must be known.when funsho williams died,did his children to battle each oder for his property.Live ibo people alone,we dnt need any part of dis country to survive.We are ordained by God to survive against all odds.t
ReplyDeleteWhether you like it or not, the act of inheritance in Nigeria can never be thesame as it is done in the Western World. With the increase in wickedness this days, it is difficult to tell who truely love you or not. Many women have hastened the death of their husband all in the name of inheriting his properties especially in the Eastern part of Nigeria. Try Awka women and you will understand what am talking about (apology to the few innocent ones. The treatment meted to Widows in the East is quite barbaric but it is the conduct of few bad widows that made innocent ones to suffer unjustly. Some ppl condemn the clause Ojukwu added to his will about family land in his village which he willed to Bianca but on the condition that she dont remarry. Come to think of it, if she decides to remarry, it will imply that the new husband will partake in that land too and you know even Ojukwu in his grave will not tolerate another man fucking Bianca while at thesame time enjoying his family land. Finally, only lazy ppl wait for inheritance from their late parent. Why dont they work for their own properties. My candid advice to men is to ensure that they groom their children properly while they are alive and will their properties to the children. It is then the business of the children to take care of their mother for as long as she lives. Afterall she is only living for the children. If however she feels like re-marrying, let her go and start her empire there. I dont expect my mother to contest my father's property with me. All i have is hers and all she have is mine as well. Why the debate? In my own part of the world, no one contest for inheritance with children of the deceased.
ReplyDelete" what you wanted to die for" , please ask yourselves where is the rightful owner today. So enough for the day is all you required to live...........therefore think !
ReplyDeletei guess the publisher of this news is simply affected with joblessnesss... wont you leave the dead to be???
ReplyDeleteHaven't order families with same motherhood gone to court over late fathers property? Why is ojukwus family issue be attributed to igbo culture, is d court not meant settlements n clearificatin? To me anybody can go to court to settle tins so long as it doesn't take like meanwhile fighting 4 ones rite isn't Stupidity be it ur fathers property or not.
ReplyDeleteInteresting times.
ReplyDeleteLet the court decide if Ojukwu had the right to hand over his trusteeship position to his widow at his demise, since this matter is obviously heading for the court.
In my humble opinion, that position was his, to give to whomsoever it pleased him to hand it to, and I am sure the story would be different if he had asked that his first son, Emeka Jrr took it over!
It's all about the widow, isn't it? Shame, shame!
I have read the other report about the Will and the controversy generated from it's contents, and all I can say is, Ojukwu, well done for doing the right thing! You knew you would not be around long enough for your widow and the youngest children to enjoy your presence as a father and the comfort that comes with it, so you left a property each for them.
The land left behind is also for those young sons of his sired through Bianca and that is why the condition of remarriage was included. It is simply to ensure that there is no dilution of the lineage and no controversy or struggle with his children by another man or family.
As soon as those twin sons are old enough, Bianca should hand over their properties to them (that is, the 2 properties in Abuja and the 2 plots of land in Nnewi) and she can go ahead and remarry at that point. Casablanca Lodge is for her and her only, and she can leave it behind for her sons or do WHATSOEVER she pleases with it.
Ojukwu, rest in peace. You have done well, and protected those who really need protection.
As for Emeka Jnr and co, who want to contest this will, good luck to all of you. If you came before my court, I would give you all a piece of my mind before throwing out your case.,
God bless Nigeria.
Proud NAIJA!