Respect Supreme Court docket judgement, Delta group urges Okowa

The folks of Obodougwa-Ogume group within the Ndokwa West Native Authorities Space of Delta State have appealed to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to respect the 2003 judgement of the Supreme Court docket on the protracted land dispute between them and the folks of Emu-Ebendo group.

The Chairman of Obodougwu-Ogume Group Growth Committee, Mr. Anslem Onyigbo, made the attraction on behalf of the group on Friday.

Onyigbo appealed to the Ifeanyi Okowa-led administration within the state to compel the 2 events to respect and abide by the judgment of the Supreme Court docket on the land matter which was delivered in 2003.

He lamented that the 40 years land dispute had claimed many lives of harmless folks from either side.

He mentioned, “We’re interesting to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State to dialogue and discover a strategy to resolve our variations because it pertains to the land dispute.

“However allow us to not overlook that the Supreme Court docket has given judgement on the matter in 2003. The court docket gave its judgement primarily based on the map of the disputed land, so coming to say that they wish to amend the map could be very very flawed.

“The folks of Emu-Ebendo need an modification of the map, they need to return to the court docket and achieve this. You can’t search to amend the map that the Apex court docket had given judgment on.

“For additional clarifications, I wrote to the workplace of the Legal professional-Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, whereby I submitted an in depth trajectory of the marginalisation, deprivation, humiliation, injustice and the flawed enforcement of the Supreme Court docket judgment.”

Within the letter dated June 10, 2022 and made obtainable to Saturday PUNCH, the Legal professional-Common of the Federation got here out with a place paper stating that the judgement of the Supreme Court docket as interpreted by the Excessive Court docket on the matter remained binding and as such all events have been obligated to obey identical.

“All individuals and authorities subordinate to the Supreme Court docket are duty-bound to implement the choice of the apex court docket. The judgement of the Supreme Court docket is proscribed to Oluiji and Iyiachi lands as contained within the reliefs and judgement didn’t make Obodo-Ugwa group a tenant of Emu-Ebendo.

“Within the curiosity of peace, nevertheless, I counsel that the oil corporations abide by these judgements and honour their social contracts obligation to Obodo-Ugwa Ogume Group as their host group and likewise prolong identical to Emu-Ebendo, which is clearly a contagious and impacted group.”

The letter additionally directed Energia Restricted to formally recognise and accord to Obodo-Ugwa its social contract obligations as its landlord and host group and likewise clearly noticed that Ebendo is clearly a neighbouring and an impacted group.

The AGF identified that every one events, together with Energia Oil and related authorities MDAs, have been sure by the choice of the apex court docket, from which there might be no additional attraction or opposite actions by the events.

Nonetheless, Onyibo urged Energia Oil Restricted to do the needful and expedite motion within the processing and execution of a brand new Memorandum of Understanding within the method indicating Obodo-Ugwa as its host group.