ABAVO KINGSHIP TUSSLE: ASUMAH FAMILY RAISE ALARM OVER INTIMIDATION, THREAT TO LIFE, AND MISSING SON

Posted Date: February 26, 2014 

ABAVO KINGSHIP TUSSLE: ASUMAH FAMILY RAISE ALARM OVER INTIMIDATION, THREAT TO LIFE, AND MISSING SON

The Asumah kindred in Abavo Kingdom, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, have raised alarm over the intimidation and threat to life against members of their family especially, Pa. Okoh Asumah and his household by King Uche Irenuma II, the assumed monarch of their community.

                  Pa. Okoh Asumah

Addressing journalist, a member of the Asumah family who claim anonymity said enough is enough of the intimidation of King Uche who according to him made himself the monarch of Abavo against will of the people. According to him, “Abavo Community is in bondage with King Uche as the monarch. There is no doubt that over 85 percent of the good people of Abavo are not in favor of King Uche’s leadership of intimidation.

                          Celestine Asumah  

“King Uche took offense at Pa. Okoh Asumah when the Abavo people protested against him for not being their community rightful monarch, thereby requesting that Pa. Okoh Asumah who is the next person in the community leadership to become the monarch and it is constitutional.

“King Uche being a rascal monarch, whose leadership is by thuggery, has continued to torment Pa. Okoh Asumah and his household while threatening to kill them”.

Continuing, the source said that King Uche did his worst by conniving with the police to get Pa. Okoh Asumah arrested alongside his wife, Catherine Asumah whose whereabouts have remained a mystery. He added that King Uche thereafter ordered his thugs to destroy the ancestral home of Pa. Okoh Asumah. 

  The source concluded by stating that the worry of the Asumah family is the whereabouts of Celestine Asumah, the son of Pa. Okoh Asumah who ran away from Abavo on February 7, 2014, in search of safety because King Uche was after his life.

Culled from Ika Weekly

LAND DISPUTE: OKOBIA ISIOMA DECLARED MISSING

Posted Date: July 29, 2014 

LAND DISPUTE: OKOBIA ISIOMA DECLARED MISSING

The family of Okobia in Abavo in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State have declared Okobia Isioma, the second child of their late brother and uncle, late Okobia Francis missing. 

According to a family source who claim anonymity, disclosed that their brother, Okobia Francis, his wife, Okobia Joy, and their first son, Okobia Felix were all murdered by the monarch of their community (Abavo), King Uche Irenuma following a land dispute which began since 2011. 

            Missing Isioma Okobia

This according to the source has led the surviving children of their late brother to run away from the community for their dear lives as King Uche had threatened to wipe out their entire family to have the land to himself.

The source condemned the wicked desire of King Uche in taking possession of the only land belonging to their late brother Okobia Francis for selfish reasons saying that as the monarch of the Abavo Community that all the land belonged to him. The source further said that their family worry is that the whereabouts of their late brother’s second son; Okobia Isioma has remained unknown to them since the heat of the land dispute in June 2014 made all the children to flee for safety of their lives.

While lamenting that King Uche has continued to rule them with thugs armed to the teeth, the source prayed for the safety of their late brother’s children wherever they are.     

Meanwhile, the Okobia family has expressed their worry over the whereabouts of Okobia Isioma, who they said was born on June 1, 1994, dark in complexion, speaks Ika, English, and Pidgin English languages fluently.

Culled Ika Weekly