Agency Report
Some indigenes of Nguru community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State have passed a vote of no confidence on its traditional ruler, Igwe Linus Obayi.
The people made their feelings known during a protest in the community on Monday over the alleged high handedness of the community head especially his non-recognition of its town union.
Some of the placards carried by about 500 protesters read; “Igwe Linus Obayi must go”, “We want Nguru Town Union or nothing; Gov. Ugwuanyi, we know you for your uprightness come to our rescue”.
Others are; “Obayi, why are you against the development of Nguru community and Obayi stop selling our community land”.
The leader of the protest, Prof. Tony Onyishi, of the Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), said the objective was to show the community’s dissatisfaction over Obayi’s refusal to allow town union executives to function in the past four years.
According to Onyishi, the absence of town union has stalled development and denied the community representation in many occasions in the local and state government.
“It’s unfortunate that series of efforts to install town union executives have been scuttled and frustrated by the traditional ruler.
”Obayi refuses to allow town union members elected by the community last year to function.
“The traditional ruler insists that he should be the only one to appoint town union leaders in the community. So we are using the protest to pass a vote of no confidence on him,” Onyishi said.
