{"id":75402,"date":"2020-08-17T16:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=75402"},"modified":"2020-08-17T16:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T15:45:52","slug":"court-seals-mtn-facility-in-anambra-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/court-seals-mtn-facility-in-anambra-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Court seals MTN facility in Anambra community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A Magistrate Court in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government of Ananmbra state has sealed an MTN mast serving a densely populated area of Nkpor-Agu, a suburb of Onitsha, Anambra State, over right of possession.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The disconnection and sealing of the mast number T4141 located at number\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">17 Attah Road<\/a>Amafor Village, Nkpor-Agu community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra has disrupted service to MTN consumers in the area.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A High Court in the Idemili Judicial Division Ogidi, presided over by Justice E. 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Nri-Ezedi had earlier in a judgment dated April 16, 2019 given Mr Shedrack Chukwurah, the plaintiff possession of the said land.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0The plaintiff initiated a suit by a writ of summons dated April 5, 2018 which opened a legal tussle between him and MTN Nigeria Communication Limited, Int Towers Limited and Mrs Anna Chukwurah.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nri-Ezedi stated that the plaintiff is the one entitled to the grant of statutory right of occupancy with respect to that piece and parcel of land known as and called number\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">17 Attah Road<\/a>\u00a0Amafor Village Nkpor-Agu in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mr Donatus Ozoemenam, a bailiff from Magistrate Court, Ogidi sealed the facility on Monday, following an order of Magistrate\u2019s Court in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area issued on July 24, 2020 warned against tampering the sealed facility.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ozoemenam who used light red ribbon tired round the iron rod barricade protecting the mast to seal the place told people who gathered to have a glimpse at the action that nobody should tamper with the facility.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The enforcement team equally disconnected the electric generating set which provides power supply to the facility thereby making the mast non-functional for MTN customers residing and doing businesses around the area.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The MTN Mast T4141 is erected near Immaculate Heart Catholic Mission, Nkpor-Agu, Cor Maria Secondary school, Urban Secondary, Nkpor Public Motor Park and Geolis Cable Industry among others.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mr Shedrack Chukwurah who reacted to the sealing of the facility said, the management of Int Towers Limited and MTN Nigeria have intentional decided to be play politics with the provisions of court judgment on the matter.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Before the judgment by His Lordship Nri-Ezedi, we had a consent settlement which preceded the court final judgment and the parties brought the agreement to court.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;It is surprising that rather than heed to the provisions of the judgment, the defendants now reneged on what they are expected to do and started playing hide and seek game,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Shedrack said that his late father gave the said land to him in the year 2003, before the father died in 2004, while MTN erected mast on the place in 2005.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The plaintiff regretted that the wife of his late brother Mrs Anna Chukwurah decided into lay claim to the property after the death of the husband, but expressed joy that court has finally unresolved the truth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Miss Ijeoma Okoye, a customer to MTN appealed to the company to step up action towards resolving the dispute in order not to expose their customers in the area to disruption of services.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;This area is busy business area as you can see, even though we have other telecommunication networks, MTN is largely use by people here because it was the first company to erect mast around this area,\u2019\u2019 Okoye said.<\/div>\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>A Magistrate Court in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government of Ananmbra state has sealed an MTN mast serving a densely populated area of Nkpor-Agu, a suburb of Onitsha, Anambra State,&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":75403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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