— Makes Shocking Revelations About Ministry Of Lands

Your Excellency,

We write to you today not only as sons and daughters of Nkarahia Community, Ohaji-Egbema LGA, but as your firm supporters, people who have stood with you in faith, in truth, and with unshakeable belief in your leadership. We have watched with pride as you labored to rebuild Imo, restore order, and rekindle trust in governance. Your resolve not to tamper with people’s ancestral lands, and your open disdain for the land grabbing that ruined past governments, particularly that of former Governor Rochas Okorocha, remain hallmarks of your covenant with the people. These are the reasons we love you, we respect you, and we stand by you.

But today, our hearts bleed. Today, we are weighed down by sorrow, grief, and a heavy sense of betrayal.

Barrister Enyinna Onuegbu, your Commissioner for Lands, is dragging your hard-earned reputation through the filth of corruption and dishonor. He has weaponized the powers of your office to pursue a personal land-grabbing agenda in our peaceful community. He is bent, desperately bent, on desecrating the legacy of justice you have built with your own hands. If you knew even half the truth, Your Excellency, your heart would ache like ours.

Let us speak plainly, with the respect and love we owe you. Onuegbu has no interest in public service in this matter. He was promised 100 plots of land as his share when our land is “acquired.” He has boasted, yes, openly boasted, that he would use the land not for farming, as he falsely claims, but to sell and finance his 2027 governorship ambition. He is not serving your administration; he is using it. And in doing so, he is destroying the very values for which you are admired across Imo State.

The land in question, situated within the Ogburuzo Ogwu Palm Plantation, has belonged to us, the Akpelu Family, for generations. It was passed down through our forefathers, tilled and protected with sweat and sacrifice, and is one of the few remaining ancestral properties our family holds. Decades ago, our land came under threat from encroachers who wanted to forcefully seize it using political power and forged documents. We resisted. The case dragged through the courts for over two decades, and we pursued justice not with guns or protest, but with patience and faith in the law.

In 2013, after a long legal battle that went from the High Court to the Court of Appeal and finally the Supreme Court, the apex court of our nation delivered a landmark judgment in Suit No. SC/250/2005, declaring unequivocally that the land belongs to our family, Nze Matthew Akpelu. That judgment remains final and binding. All those who challenged our ownership were defeated. The land was returned to us by law. And we thought that would be the end. We never imagined that in 2025, under a just and peaceful government like yours, another attempt would arise; this time not from outside, but from within the very structure of the government we support.

This is the same land that our father, the late Matthew Akpelu, lost his life defending. That land is not just property, it is blood. It is memory. It is pain. Our father died for it. And now, Barr. Onuegbu is dancing on his grave, trying to take by lies and political force what was already confirmed as ours by the Supreme Court of Nigeria. What kind of heart does a man have, who invades the peace of a dead man’s house, not to offer prayers, but to set it on fire?

Your Excellency, we are not strangers. We are your people. The Akpelu Family is ready, willing, and enthusiastic to partner with your government to develop that land for the good of Nkarahia, for Ohaji-Egbema, for Imo State. We do not stand in your way; we stand with you. But Barr. Enyinna Onuegbu is the one standing in the way, because of his private greed and political ambition.

In pursuit of this selfish goal, Onuegbu has engaged in the most shameful and sacrilegious acts imaginable. He aligned himself with the same people who were soundly defeated at the Supreme Court, a judgment Your Excellency knows is final and binding. He has tried to rewrite the truth. He has tried to use executive power to override the very law you swore to uphold.

But even more disturbing: he went and procured a strange, immoral woman, a woman not known to our family, who never had any connection to our father while he lived, and he now parades her as our father’s “last wife.” Let us make it clear before God and man: our father had only one wife. Our mother. No other. And now this impostor, sponsored by your Commissioner, is being used to fraudulently lay claim to our father’s estate.

Is there a greater insult? Is there a deeper abomination? Is this not an unforgivable violation of Igbo tradition and ancestral respect?

This is not just about politics. This is not just a land transaction. This is a betrayal of family, of justice, of bloodline, of everything sacred to our people.

Your Excellency, if Barr. Enyinna Onuegbu succeeds in this evil scheme, he would not only have robbed us of our inheritance, but he would have succeeded in ruining the name of the only Governor in the history of our state who has respected people’s ancestral ties to land. A man known across Nigeria today as peaceful, incorruptible, and honorable. Is this the legacy you want tainted by the greed of one man?

Your Excellency, please shine your light on this matter. We beg you. As your children. As your people. As your brothers.

Let not the blood of our father cry in vain.

Let not the efforts of your government be turned into tools of land raiders.

Let not those who sing your praises tomorrow also carry stories of a Commissioner who ruined your good name for personal gain. 

May God guide your hand with wisdom, and may your heart be moved, as always, to defend the innocent.

Yours faithfully, 

Chinedu Akpelu and Jonathan Akpelu

For the Akpelu Family

Nkarahia Community, Ohaji-Egbema LGA, Imo State

June 30, 2025