JUMBO MAJOR HOUSE OF BONNY KINGDOM DISCLAIMS FALSE AFFIDAVIT ON THE LEADERSHIP AND OWNERSHIP OF COMMUNITY LANDS – Bloom
Stakeholders of the Jumbo Major House of Grand Bonny Kingdom last weekend issued a Communiqué debunking false claims to the leadership of the House.
According to the communiqué resolved and issued at the end of recent consultations amongst Key Stakeholders and leaders of various Communities, including Elders, Youths, Women and Other organs of the Jumbo Major House, the claims of leadership of the House as deposed to in an Affidavit by one Engr. Sodienye Jumbo and partly serialized in a media post by Kristina Reporters, is a despicable falsehood and gross distortion of facts designed to mislead the Court and the general public. The document further reiterated the illegitimacy of Engr. Sodienye, Mr. Kalada Jene and Mr. Edmund Jumbo who purported to be Executive Members of the Jumbo Major House Council of Elders.
The Communiqué emphatically hinged the Stakeholders’ position on documented and verifiable facts that the said trio ceased to be members of the Jumbo Major House Council of Elders with effect when they were formally given the pink slip by the former Paramount Chief/Head of the Jumbo Major House, Mr. Horace Oko Jumbo due to proven various traditional infractions as contained in official correspondences under the hand of the later and posted to their respective Kindred Families (Warisuus). The communiqué also recalled that a Court Ruling by Hon. Justice I.R. Minakiri over a question of leadership of the Jumbo Major House in SUIT NO: BHC/101/2016 affirmed the Chief Jasper F. Jumbo –led Jumbo Major House Caretaker Committee as the authentic Government of the House, that adding the said Judgment was subsequently unanimously reaffirmed by the three Appellate Court Judges in SUIT NO: CA/PHC/525/2018 with a fine of ₦200,000 against the appellants – Engr. Sodienye Jumbo, Mr Kalada M. Jene Dan Jumbo and Edmund jumbo.
And that the Caretaker Committee was set up by the Jumbo Major House supreme Authority- the Jumbo Masses in an Annual General Meeting as stipulated in the Jumbo Major House 1971 Constitution and not by the Council of Elders.
The Stakeholders’ Communiqué, while accentuating a recent Ex parte Court Order issued by Hon. Justice L. Abina Ngbor of the Bori High Court in SUIT NO: WHC/73/2019 accordingly restrained all individuals, groups, institutions and their representatives from transacting in any Jumbo Major House lands and estates, the document decisively frowned at the mendacious claims by Engr. Sodienye Jumbo in his sworn Affidavit in support of the Application for the said Ex Parte Order of interlocutory injunction.
The Stakeholders also recalled a previous attempt by these renegades of the Jumbo Major House – (SODIENYE/KALADA/EDMUND and others) to mischievously usurp the leadership of the House through a non- existent and purported 7-man finance committee. A move they informed was aptly aborted via a Court Judgment delivered by Hon. Justice Akpughunum of the Rivers State High Court on the 26th of February, 2001 in SUIT NO: PHC/1061/2001.
The Communiqué maintained that, Messrs Sodienye Jumbo, Edmund Jumbo and others subsequently lost an appeal on the Hon. Justice Akpughunum’s Judgement in SUIT NO: CA/PHC/464/2009, and paid a fine of ₦20,000 each.
In furtherance of the Stakeholders endorsement of the leadership of the Chief Prof. Jasper F. Jumbo – led Caretaker Committee of Jumbo Major House, the communiqué averred that the legitimacy of the said Committee is corroborated by the Resolutions reached at the mass plenary meetings of the Jumbo Major House on the 26th of September, 2015 where Chief Jasper Jumbo was accordingly and unanimously re-elected and re-mandated to govern the Jumbo Major House, as well as, act as the Traditional Head/ Acting Paramount Chief of the House pending when a substantive Chief would be elected. This mandate was latter re- affirmed in the Mass Meeting of 2016 and have not been voided till date, as the matter is still sub-judice. The Communiqué also flaunted support for the Caretaker Committee by relying upon a Power of Attorney duly donated to Wari Alabo Chief Prof. Jasper F. Jumbo by the masses of the Jumbo Major House on the 7th of August 1993 to be the exclusive person mandated to represent the Jumbo Major House on Oil/Gas and related developments, including financial matters with the SHELL PETROLEUM NIGERIA LIMITED and other Oil/Gas corporate institutions operating on the Jumbo Major House territory in the Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State.
This stance the document maintained was undoubtedly legitimized by a Court Order issued by Hon. Justice G.O. Omereji of the Rivers State Judiciary on the 3rd of July, 2017 in SUIT NO: PHC/47/2011 as well as re-confirmed policy instruments issued by both the Deeds Registrar and Permanent Secretary of the Rivers State Ministry of Lands and the Attorney General of the Federation. The Communiqué unequivocally re assured the Stakeholders’ determination to uphold the mandate accorded the Chief Jasper-led Caretaker Committee of the Jumbo Major House by the masses of the House following the election of the Caretaker Committee conducted on the 6th of September, 2014. The Jumbo Major House Stakeholders through the said communiqué, while acknowledging the recent Ex parte Order on interlocutory injunction issued by Hon. Justice L. Abina Ngbor, posited they are determined to ensure that the application of due process and negotiations for the control of the patrimony and landed hereditament of the Jumbo Major House are in conformity with the tenets of the Jumbo Major House Constitution and Regulations of 1971, and to maintain the Rule of Law concomitant to justice, equity and fairplay.
The Communiqué re-appraised the question of superitendency of Jumbo Major House Lands and estates with a rapt reference to the Judgment delivered by the Bonny Customary Court in SUIT NO: CCB/7/2019 which ruled that the administration of the Jumbo Major House Lands lies with the Paramount House Chief or whosoever is mandated by Jumbo masses to head the Jumbo Major House, in conjunction with his Council of Elders but, not without the consent and participation of the proximate relevant Village Heads and leaders representatives of the Kindred Families of the proximate Jumbo Communities. The said Bonny Customary Court Judgment wittily declared that Jumbo Major House owns all Jumbo Community Lands. The Stakeholders uphold the unhindered rights of Jumbo Major House over her Lands and estates. To this end, the communiqué maintained that nobody or group or institution has the legal right to interfere or impose leadership on the Jumbo Major House. To drive home this position, the document pointedly recalled a Court Judgment/Order delivered by Hon. Justice P.N.C Agumagu in SUIT NO: PHC/1098/2006 where the Bonny Monarch and the Council of Chiefs were restrained from imposing any leadership on Jumbo Major House, as well as, any Chieftaincy House of Bonny based on the provisions of sections 4 and 9 of the Bonny Kingdom Constitution and the 1971 Jumbo Major House Constitution.
Finally, the Stakeholders Communiqué pointedly urged the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Bonny Chiefs Council, Corporate bodies operating on Jumbo Major House Lands in the Bonny LGA, relevant Courts of competent jurisdiction, the Bonny Local Government Council, Security Personnel, the Federal Ministry of Works, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC., Bodo-Bonny Road Peace Committee, well-meaning citizens of the Jumbo Major House and the general public to discountenance every unconstitutional usurpation of leadership or lands belonging to the Jumbo Major House by Engr. Sodienye Jumbo, Kalada M. Jene and Mr. Edmund Jumbo.
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