Court battle erupts over Anioma traditional stool in Ebonyi community

A caller contention has emerged implicit the accepted enactment of Anioma Autonomous Community successful Isuokoma, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

This is arsenic a kingship claimant, Wisdom Chukwuma Okoye, has approached the tribunal seeking to invalidate the designation of a accepted ruler successful the community.

Speaking to newsmen aft the tribunal proceedings connected Monday successful Abakaliki, Okoye alleged that irregularities and violations of established succession procedures characterized the process that led to the emergence of the existent occupant of the throne.

Okoye, who traced the quality to a longstanding kingship tussle successful the community, alleged that erstwhile controversies had erstwhile near Anioma without a accepted ruler for astir 19 years.

According to him, the prolonged quality has deprived the assemblage of developmental opportunities and authorities benefits tied to the instauration of accepted leadership.

He maintained that the kingship statement successful Anioma follows a rotational strategy among designated villages and compounds and argue...