Ex-Gov. Nwobodo drags EEDC to court
A former governor of old Anambra State, Sen. (Dr) Jim
Nwobodo, has dragged the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) to court
over his property they occupy as tenants at will.
Dr. Nwobodo instructed his lawyers in Enugu to eject
forthwith the electric distribution firm which had been his tenant for over
sixteen years now.
Our source in Enugu hinted to our reporter that the company
approached Sen. Nwobodo to allow them keep their substation which supplies
power to parts of Akwuke and Gariki in the year 2000; a request which senator
Nwobodo obliged without ado.
Sometime in 2006, Sen. Nwobodo wrote a letter to the Power
Holding Company as they then was to come for review of their continued stay in
his premises but according to the source, the company replied the letter
claiming that Se.r Nwobodo had alienated the parcel of land measuring 50 by 50
meters to them yet they cannot boast of
irrevocable power of Attorney, Deed of Assignment, Deed of Gift or any legal
document evidencing that the senator had indeed alienated that parcel of land
to the company.
The source said that some time Sen. Jim Nwobodo instructed
his lawyer Chijioke Okibe Esq to write and invite The Enugu Electricity
Distribution Company who acquired the assets and liabilities of the said power
Holdings Plc to come for a meeting to review their continued occupation of that
parcel of land within satellite premises Gariki Awkunanaw.
After two series of meeting with EEDC legal team, they
promised to intimate the management of the company about the conditions counsel
to Dr. Nwobodo gave them. Up to the time the company was dragged to court to
surrender possession, the company had neither made any moves to settle their
stay in the premises with neither the counsel to Dr Nwobodo nor Nwobodo himself
rather EEDC started the blackmail of the
senator by denying him electricity for several months.
His power supply was only restored when the senator raised
alarm that Emeka Offor and Ken Nnamani allegedly masterminded the plan to deny
him supply so that senator Nwobodo may be cajoled into dropping the legal
issues in the matter.
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