{"id":29758,"date":"2014-08-03T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=29758"},"modified":"2014-08-03T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T16:02:56","slug":"tension-anambra-community-ex-419-kingpin-monarch-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tension-anambra-community-ex-419-kingpin-monarch-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension in Anambra Community As ex-419 Kingpin, Monarch Square Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tension is building up in Abagana, Anambra State following moves by a convicted Advance-Fee fraudster, Chief Emmanuel Nwude to host a parallel new yam festival in the town to spite the regent.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nwude, who holds the title &#8220;Owelle Abagana&#8221; and his accomplices were in 2005 convicted by a federal high court for pulling the biggest advance fee fraud in history.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abagana regent, Obi Mbamalu Okeke had, weeks ago, offered to host the town to the traditional new yam festival. He had fixed the event for Sunday August 3, 2014.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, people of the town were taken aback by an announcement by town criers at the weekend that Nwude would be hosting a new yam festival on the same Sunday August 3, 2014 &#8220;for all true descendants of Umudunu.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nwude is from Umudunu, the largest village in Abagana, and styles himself as &#8220;Leader&#8221; Umudunu-Abagana. Regent Okeke is from Akpu, one of the relatively smallest of the nine villages that make up Abagana.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some residents of the town told Pointblanknews.com that they would stay indoors out of concern for their safety.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They described Nwude&#8217;s invitation as an affront on the powers of Igwe Mbamalu, and expressed disappointment with they described as the &#8220;conspiratorial silence&#8221; of prominent sons of the town.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abagana, a town where Nigeria suffered her biggest loss during the civil war, is home to prominent scientists, scholars and industrialist, including a former Director-General, Nigeria Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Uche Okeke.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abagana has produced a former Minister of Science and Technology and professor of engineering of note, Gordian Ezekwe, a former deputy governor of old Anambra State, the late Vincent Aniagolu, Chukwuemeka Ike, the first African management staff of Carrier, among others.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some persons blamed the &#8220;Abagana Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for according Nwude, for a fee, police protection to harass and intimidate law-abiding people of the town.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They wondered aloud why one man, and an ex-convict at that, would hold an entire town to ransom.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;That Nwude is pulling all these stunts after life in prison is a most toxic affront on our collective sensibilities and has to be called to order,&#8221; said one civil servant from the town.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before his conviction, Nwude was the largest shareholder in Union Bank Plc, and had controlling shares in several banks and blue-chip companies.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a plea-bargain handled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nwude agreed to forfeit cash and property to the tune of 120 million US dollars.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Following his conviction, EFCC seized several properties of the scammer, including the famous Russel Centre (now Febson Mall), Abuja, a glass tower in Ikoyi, and\u00a0 choice automobiles.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, EFCC operatives disclosed that they still believe Nwude has tens of millions of US dollars stashed in the accounts of fronts in Nigeria and overseas.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We have intelligence he is deeply involved in politics and uses part of his loot to sponsor or block candidates during elections. This shows that he has learned nothing from prison,&#8221; claimed one EFCC official.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A former member of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Ike George Okoye had recently petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, alleging plots by Nwude to kill him.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The former lawmaker claimed Nwude&#8217;s anger stemmed from the belief he (Okoye) was frustrating the former&#8217;s several moves to become the paramount ruler of Abagana.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Okoye had specifically accused Nwude of running a kidnap ring, and using the Zone 9 Police Command in Umuahia, and the Abagana DPO, to cover his tracks, and urged the IG to call him to order.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tension is building up in Abagana, Anambra State following moves by a convicted Advance-Fee fraudster, Chief Emmanuel Nwude to host a parallel new yam festival in the town to spite&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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