Following the incessant display of fraudulent activities of the immediate past President-General of Orluzurumee, Chief Reuben Okoro, the youth wing of the organization has unanimously restated the expulsion of the former, and insisted on resisting his latest extortions and recruitment of fake groups.
The youth assembly who decried the unrepentant defiant acts lamented that Chief Reuben had in recent time turned the nights of the people into mere daylights as his innumerable obnoxious acts have posed a challenge to Orluzurumee and the entire Orlu zone, hence the urgent call for his ejection.
A release signed by Comrade Ozokwere Galore, BoT Spokesperson, the group recounted on the various illicit attitudes of Reuben Okoro, ranging from defrauding of unsuspecting members of the public in the name of Orluzurumee.
Furthermore, the Youth Assembly recalled the suspension of Chief Reuben Okoro, on November 5, 2015, consequent on alleged seizure of the group’s property and conversion of same to personal use, extortion and purported collapse of Orluzurumee into a political party by the latter.
The release reads in full:
It has lately been a source of worry to the people of Orlu Zone that Chief Reuben Okoro, a man who has long been booted out of Orluzurumee, still goes about defrauding unsuspecting members of the public in the name of Orluzurumee.
In addition, he has continued to recruit some misguided youths as willing-tools who he parades as his youth wing. It is therefore very pertinent to state the facts the way they.
First, on November 5, 2015, the General Assembly of suspended Chief Reuben Okoro from Orluzurumee on allegations of seizure of the group’s property and conversion of same to personal use, extortion and purported collapse of Orluzurumee into a political party. This was published on page 11 of Nigeria Newspoint newspaper of November 6, 2015. Chief Okoro has never put up a single line of defense till date.
Second, in 2012, Chief Okoro along with Prof. David Akubukwe on behalf of Orluzurumee Cultural Union had instituted a court action against Chris Esiobu and Emmanuel Amafili, vide suit No. HOR/26/2012 at the high court in Orlu over issues of substitution of names of BoT and executive members. On Tuesday, July 9, 2013, the court, presided over by Hon. Justice C.A. Ononeze-Madu, ordered as follows, “It is the further order of this court restraining both parties from acting in any way or parading in any form as executive members of Orluzurumee Cultural Union pending the determination of the substantive suit.” That court order which has proscribed Chief Okoro from parading himself in whatever form as Orluzurumee has not been vacated.
Third, in furtherance of his morbid and covetous drive to keep enriching himself with a common patrimony, Chief Okoro in 2018 instituted a fresh court action at the Orlu judicial division of the Imo State High Court against the valid leadership of Orluzurumee headed by Chief Emeka Diwe, vide suit No. HOR/40/2018. He was seeking the court to order Diwe to hand over the assets of the group to him. On April 8, 2019, Hon. Justice L.C. Azuama delivered judgment. The court struck out his case on the grounds that having been duly expelled from the group and his hands tied by an extant court order, “Chief Okoro is not competent to appear before the court” and has no right over the property of the defendants. This judgment has dumped Chief Okoro into the dustbin of history as long as Orluzurumee is concerned.
Thereafter, Chief Okoro came up with the idea of recruiting people and calling them Orluzurumee. He recruited McDonald Akano as President-General, who after discovering that the whole thing was a fraud ran away. He also recruited Chidi Steve Agbarakwe as President-General and fronted for a polytechnic racket which failed and Agbarakwe ran away.
Yet again he recruited Sam Ukonu as President-General, and together they have been going about parading as Orluzurumee. Recently at Njaba, they claimed they have been reconciled with and readmitted into Orluzurumee, and went ahead to extort varying amounts of money from people both for registration and for nomination into positions. This is really pathetic!
We wish to state categorically that the expulsion of Chief Reuben Okoro from Orluzurumee is total, permanent, forever, unchangeable and irreversible. We also wish to clarify that the so-called youth wing which he is parading is fake, fraudulent, non-existent and completely mischievous. There is only one umbrella union of all Orlu youths, and it is called Orluzurumee Youth Assembly. It is incorporated and recognized by law, and the shadowy characters being paraded by Chief Okoro are unknown to us.
We therefore warn Chief Okoro for the last time to stop impersonating Orluzurumee and flaunting some miscreants as Orluzurumee Youths. Any further attempt to bring this revered apex socio-cultural group in Orlu Zone to disrepute will elicit a mass action by the entire Orlu youths and will be dealt with by the law enforcement agencies decisively.
