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.
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.
Source: PUNCH
Yes I think I will agree with this people cos OTL is not owned by Dim Emeka OJukwu rather it is d property of OJukwu's late Dad . So there is no way the directorship can go to a married woman - Bianca . Who is Bianca sef ? Mtcheeee .
ReplyDeleteWhat kinda nonsense Igbo culture is this? How can a first son own his fathers house etc at death . What if the father has only one house for instance , can the first son drive out all his brothers and occupy d whole house when he is for instance not in good terms with his brothers ? I disagree with d culture ,its barbaric and uncivilized .
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