Group protests plan to ‘impose’ monarch on Anambra community

A group, Idinotu Kanma, in Nkerehi/Umuchukwu community of Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, has protested against “attempts to impose” a traditional ruler on their community.

Members of the group were at the government house in Awka on a protest march.

They wielded placards with inscriptions such as “We want peace in Nkerehi/Umuchukwu community; Soludo please come to our aid” and “We the youths of Nkerehi/Umuchukwu do not need igwe for now; let’s get peace first before igweship election in our town”.

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Leader of the group, Christian Arinze, who addressed journalists, said the community had been in trouble since 2017 as a result of a tussle over the traditional stool.

He said, “We are here today because we heard that there is a new plot to crown someone in our community as the monarch. That plan is being made by a billionaire in our community who has already positioned his elder brother for the position.

“He has boasted everywhere that he cannot be stopped; so we thought the best thing to do is to come to our governor and complain to him that the man who is being positioned is not the popular choice of the community.

“What is uppermost in the minds of our people is how to heal wounds caused by disunity and to bring peace to the community; not crowning an unpopular monarch.

“We are begging Governor Soludo to come to our aid. We need peace in our community, and we know that a peace committee can be set up to achieve this.

“Let him not listen to people who are hell bent on seizing our community from us and positioning their brothers all over.”

A government official who begged not to be quoted, received the protesters, while also advising them to write formally to the governor stating their grouses.

City & Crime further reports that Nkerehi/Umuchukwu community has for years experienced crises, including the change of the community’s name from Nkerehi to Umuchukwu, leading a part of the community to insist on retaining the previous name.