Five Imo Commissioners, PS, Directors to be Arrested (Read Reason)

Two commissioners in the cabinet of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo stated have been ordered to be arrested by a Federal High Court, sitting in Owerri.

The Commissioner for Works and Transport, Mr Josephine Udoji and Commissioner for Lands, Survey, and Urban Planning Lawrence Eburuoh, are to be arrested for contempt of court.

Also, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works Chibuzor Iwuagwu, Director of Works, Ministry of Works C. E. Egbuka, and Director of Works Imo State Government House, Owerri, Emeka Duru.

The Imo government officials were said to have absent in a suit registered number FHC/OW/133/2016 which was instituted against the state government by a former interior minister, Emmanuel Iheanacho.

The presiding judge of the court, Justice Lewis Alagoa, ordered the Inspector-General of Police and his officers to arrest the Imo officials wherever they are sighted across the country.

Iheanacho had gone to court over the demolition of part of his property on Orlu Road in Owerri Urban by construction workers engaged for road expansion by the state government.

The court had during its sitting on November 14, 2016, summoned all the defendants to appear before it on December 8, 2016; but none of them showed up.