Anambra community protests over alleged distortion of history

Due to accusations that a published document that left out Umuanuta, which is in Uruoji village, Nri, in Anaocha local government area of Anambra State, distorted the community's history, tensions are rising among the Umuanuta kindred. 

The Umuanuta leadership has called for the repair of the anomaly in order for peace to reign, as the development has caused unrest in the area.

In the said publication titled, “All the villages and kindred in Nri”, Umuanuta was conspicuously missing, prompting the people to  embark on a protest in the town.

Chairman of Umuanuta kindred, John Jideobi, in a terse statement he copied to the President General  of Nri Progress Union (NPU), said: “Our attention has  been drawn to the publication of Omenana Na Odinana Nri, written by Chukwudi Nwokoye and Charles Chizoba Chukwura  in which Umuanuta Kindred of Uruoji village Nri was conspicuously and mischievously not mentioned as a Kindred of Uruoji village.

This could exacerbate the already tense situation in the village and the Nri community at large. However, Jideobi stated that in order to avoid any acts of contempt of court, his people would prefer not to discuss the controversies, absurd procedural mistakes, and disaster that surrounding the alleged Anuta creation in Nri. 

The matter is before a court of competent jurisdiction. Additionally, he expressed his satisfaction that the writers of the book acknowledged the existence of three villages in the Agukwu area of Nri when they mentioned the existence of two Ogwemuo units for the convenience of administering Nri.

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