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As
the tussle for the ownership of Ojukwu Transport Limited (OTL) and
Ojukwu Estate rages, some members of the Ojukwu family have asked Mrs.
Bianca Ojukwu to show proof of legal marriage to the late Biafran
warlord, Emeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu.
The Ojukwu brothers and OTL, in a 19-paragraph statement of defence
filed before Justice Funmilayo Atilade of a Lagos High Court, also
demanded proof of the paternity of Bianca’s two sons, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu.
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Culled From Thenationonlineng.net
Bianca had, on behalf of her sons, sued Prof. Joseph Ojukwu, Emmanuel
Ojukwu, Lotanna Putalora Ojukwu, Dr Patrick Ojukwu, Edward Ojukwu, Lota
Akajiora Ojukwu and Mrs Massey Udegbe, seeking a declaration that her
children were entitled to 29, Oyinkan Abayomi Street, Ikoyi, until the
harmonisation of the management and administration of the assets of OTL.
Bianca’s lawyer Chris Ezugwu prayed the court to declare as illegal the
threat of forceful ejection of her sons from the property.
But, the defendants, through their lawyer, George Uwechue (SAN) said the
subscribers of the Memorandum of Association of OTL (1st defendant) at
incorporation in 1952 were L.P Ojukwu and Betram Chukwuemeka Obi, adding
that the late Odimegwu-Ojukwu and Prof Joseph Ojukwu (2nd defendant)
were later appointed as
directors in 1953.
They said the late Odimegwu-Ojukwu ceased to be a director of the
company prior to the civil war and was reappointed a director on
December 16, 2005.
The defendants said: “The property belong to the first defendant (OTL).
The fact is that the claimants’ mother, being greedy, felt she could
hold onto the first defendant’s property. For over 12 years prior to his
death, the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu moved to Enugu and
since then had not lived at the first defendant’s property as alleged by
the claimants.”
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