But he has not only lived till date but also participated in Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan administrations. Under the present APC led Federal Government, he has again transmogrified; likewise in successive and current civilian administrations in Anambra State. Some say, he is now an APC chieftain in Anambra State.
Mr. Godwin Okeke of GUO Group has remained a major player in Anambra security and politics since early 1990s or in the past 20yrs after he stepped down as President Gen of Onitsha Amalgamated Traders Association (OMATA).
Mr. Okeke is another apologist of “any government and its party in power”; having featured prominently as a major “security” player in the past governments of Dr. CC Mbadinuju, Dr. Chris Ngige; vacuum-filled governments of Lady Virginia Etiaba and Mr. Emmanuel Ubah; as well as immediate past Government of Mr. Peter Obi administration.
In the present Government of Mr. Willie Obiano, he has remained a key player in Anambra “security”.
Mr. Christian Ubah (ESELE) is another leading apologist of “any government and its party in power” both at the State and Federal levels from 1990s till date. He is yet to complete and deliver “the Anambra Government House Project” awarded to him by Dr. CC Mbadinuju since 1999/2000.
The contract was negotiated under a strict term of “Irrevocable Standing Payment Order” or IPSO whereby N10 million then was being deducted monthly at source for the project from the State’s share of Federation Account revenues.
Yet, over 17 years till date, the project is yet to be completed and even if completed now, it can only best be used as a hostel for students of the Anambra State University Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Awka.
Also, despite many years of federal government’s links and connections, the Christian Ubah family and its stupendous wealth has nothing to show for Aguata People and their environs.
The Agulu-Ekwulobia-Uga-Imo State and the Oba-Nnewi-Uga-Okigwe Federal Roads have been in tatters for over 14yrs; likewise the Nkwo-Uga-Obizi Stream Road that leads to the Ubah family’s ancestral house in Umuoru Village of Uga Community.
Uga Community from where the Ubahs hail has just marked 100 years of its Anglo-Uga War of 1917.
The trio of Emeka Offor, Ernest Obiejesi and Ifeanyi Ubah are also not different. Oraifite Community and its indigenes where Emeka Offor comes from are not without the heat of his wealth and troubles.
Crises so generated have risen to an apogee with several criminal complaints by his antagonists and counter criminal complaints by his protagonists lodged at various police formations in Anambra, Umuahia and Abuja.
Cases of communal/clan/kindred land disputes and allied disputes also abound; likewise the Igweship of Oraifite that has remained vacant for decades.
In Okija Community where Mr. Ernest Obiejesi (OBIJACKSON) hails from, the story is not different.
Apart from walling off and cordoning his poor ancestral neighbors at his Ubahu Village House in Okija; forcing them to revert to the use of footpaths and backyards, Mr. Ernest Obiejesi is deeply fingered in several village land disputes particularly those of Ugheregbu and Umuzu villages in Okija; with most part of the disputed lands belonging to Ugheregbu Village of Okija Community.
Several petitions have been directed to the Government of Anambra State over the issue all to no avail while the Umuzu, which is now a community of its own, from Okija; has gone extra mile resulting in litigation at Ihiala State High Court.
The case of Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah would have been worse if not that Nnewi where he comes from also parades a region of billionaires like him; yet his negative footmarks are being felt by his fellow Nnewi indigenes and neighbors. Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah is also nicknamed “Mr. Slapper”; as he is said to slap people anyhow.
Totality of these explains why we identify these billionaires as troublesome or violent billionaires of Anambra State.
Our main purpose of beaming our advocacy searchlight towards them; just as we have done to several others including public office holders at the State, LGA and Federal levels in Nigeria, is to get them changed their ways of life and turned to a new leaf by abandoning their master-slave and militancy lifestyles and becoming very useful, conscientious and responsible to their State, communities, fellow indigenes and generality of the Anambra downtrodden.
Apart from the roles of the named troublesome billionaires as unrepentant apologists of any government and its party in Nigeria and Anambra State in particular since the country’s last military’s inglorious epoch (1993-1998), they have also sought and secured the god-father roles to successive and current heads of strategic conventional security establishments in Anambra State; Police Zone 9 Command, Umuahia; 82nd Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu; and the Abuja headquarters of the said security establishments including those of the Nigerian Army, Navy, SSS, Mobile Police Force, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Force CID and IGP’s special crack squads.
In many, if not in most cases, who becomes what in each of the named conventional security formations in Anambra, Enugu, Umuahia and Abuja can never scale through without the unholy blessings or approval of the said troublesome billionaires, either wholly or in part.
The case of CSP James Oshim Nwafor, former OC/SARS, Anambra State, is a clear case in point. Having joined the Nigeria Police Force on 1st April 1983 with Force Entry Number AP31343 and hailed from Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State with his birth date as 1st January 1961 (56yrs).
