22/02/2026
THE CUBANA DEBACLE AND THE SPONSORED DIATRIBE SPEWED AGAINST MY PERSON BY BARR. IFEANYI EJIOFOR.
PREAMBLE:
My attention has been drawn to the publications made by one Barr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor on the 19th of February, 2026 on his X handle, and also in the Nation Newspapers published online. The said lawyer who introduced himself as representing Ogbeozoma Community of Okpanam, made unprintable and utterly mendacious comments against my person, which he branded as facts.
In both the Nation online news medium, and his X handle the author of the libelous publications accused me of conniving with another Counsel to forge a Consent Judgment obtained in SUIT NO. HCI/5/2012 which was delivered on the 19th of June, 2012. The said Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor also tried deliberately to twist the facts, mislead members of the general public and encourage the brazen acts of trespass by the Cubana Millennium Properties Limited owners of Cubana Millennium City which is presently being built on the Akpoma Family Land, which is situated in the heart of Issele – Azagba.
Ordinarily, I would have dismissed the clout chasing publication, but for the far reaching, libelous and damaging allegations made against my person.
MY ROLE IN THE SUIT THAT LED TO THE DELIVERY OF A CONSENT JUDGMENT IN SUIT NO. HCI/5/2012:
In 2012 I was briefed by the elders of Ogbeozoma Community, Okpanam to represent them in an action filed by the Akpoma Community of Issele – Azagba over a piece and parcel of land described by the Ogbeozoma people as Osunkwe Forest, but referred simply as Akpoma Family Land by the Akpoma Community. The dispute in Court was short-lived as the elders of the two feuding Communities resolved their differences, wherein they prepared on their own, terms of settlement and only presented same to me to append my signature. It needs reiterating that the only role I played in relation to the terms settlement was appending my signature to the document as Counsel representing Ogbeozoma Community, and adopting same in Court, on the instructions of my Client, as did the Counsel representing Akpoma Quarters.
On adoption, the said terms of settlement was made the Consent Judgment between the parties, which finally terminated the suit in Court.
It is pertinent to note that the suit was prosecuted and defended in representative capacities. The persons that were sued as Defendants in that suit were not sued in their individual or personal capacities, but as representatives of Ogbeozoma Community of Okpanam. Therefore, the argument by Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor that some of the persons who signed the Consent Judgment, were not named parties, does not hold any water.
The two persons that signed the terms of settlement as well as the witness thereof, were all from Ogbeozoma Quarters, whose representatives were the ones that were sued in representative capacity.
It might interest members of the public to know that not long after the Consent Judgment was delivered, certain elements within Ogbeozoma Quarter approached yours truly to help orchestrate a false campaign against the Consent Judgment and to deny knowledge of same, in order to taint its authenticity, blur its binding force, erase the obligations flowing from same, and wear it the toga of fraud. The reason why they wanted to rescind from the Consent Judgment was because they had surreptitiously sold large swathes of land that fell into the area awarded the Akpoma Community of Issele – Azagba. They feared the inevitable backlash from those that purchased land from them. Those making these overtures were mostly members of the youth arm of Ogbeozoma.
However, despite series of monetary and proprietary offers from these persons, I remained resolute in my refusal to budge to such base and egregious levels.
These desperate trouble makers, later briefed another lawyer, who on their behalf, instituted an action against the Akpoma Community, alongside one of their own, Obi Victor Nwokobia, a traditional Chief who was the 2nd Defendant in HCI/5/2012 which had given rise to the Consent Judgment.
The suit filed by those who are championing the campaign of calumny against my, in which Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor is actively participating, filed a suit in 2013 in their personal capacities to set aside the Consent Judgment on grounds of fraud and misrepresentation. These grounds were contrived then, as it is today.
They even joined one Ogbueshi John Anuka who had threatened to file an affidavit of dissociation, which led to the discontinuance of the suit, and the appeal filed thereto.
The action filed by those opposing the implementation of the Consent Judgment was in SUIT NO. HCI/24/2013.
In filing the suit, the Claimants shied away from the High Court in Issele-Uku which delivered the Consent Judgment and also, the High Court in Akwukwu – Igbo, which has the primary territorial jurisdiction over land in Okpanam but went to Ogwashi - Uku which ordinarily, does not possess the territorial jurisdiction to hear the case.
In any case, I was again briefed by the elders of Ogbeozoma, to represent Obi Victor Nwokobia who was alleged to be the architect of the forgery of the Consent Judgment. Today, they have shifted gear, and now allege that I forged same. The processes filed in SUIT NO. HCI/24/2013 evidencing the above facts shall be made available to members of the public when necessary.
The parties in SUIT NO. HCI/24/2013 couldn’t bring the action in representative capacity, because, it was unequivocally clear that the people of Ogbeozoma Community, actively and voluntarily participated in all the steps that culminated in the said Consent Judgment.
While the matter was still pending at the Ogwashi-Uku High Court, the parties in SUIT NO. HCI/24/2013 filed a motion requesting the Court to bar me from representing Obi Victor Nwokobia, on an imagined ground of conflict of interest. According to the Claimants in that suit, I was not to represent Obi Victor Nwokobia, having represented the Claimants and Obi Victor Nwokobia in Suit No. HCI/5/2012. The said motion was dismissed in a considered ruling delivered by the Hon. Justice T.O. Diai, who today sits as the Chief Judge of Delta State.
The ruling was appealed by the Claimants, who eventually withdrew the appeal, and discontinued the action at the High Court, Ogwashi – Uku, solely because of the threat to file an affidavit of dissociation in the suit by one Ogbueshi John Anuka whose name was included in the suit without his consent.
Given, my dedication, and the skill with which I represented the Ogbeozoma Community, the Akpoma Community of Issele – Azagba approached me to handle other matters for them up until 2025 when they intimated me about the continued violation of the Consent Judgment by Ogbeozoma Quarter of Okpanam.
I wrote series of letters for them and a coalition of Quarters in Issele-Azagba, whom I represented at several fora where they were invited to interface with government officials and present their case over the boundary dispute with Ogbeozoma and Amachai Quarters of Okpanam.
THE CUBANA MILLENNIUM CITY DEBACLE AND THE MENDACITY OF BARR. IFEANYI EJIOFOR’S DIATRIBE:
In 2021 my traducers, having won Obi Victor Nwokobia to their side, together with other pliable members of Ogbeozoma Quarters, filed SUIT NO. HCI/23/2021 seeking amongst other things to set aside the Consent Judgment aforesaid. The Akpoma Quarter of Issele – Azagba was sued in that suit.
The said suit was stalled by an appeal filed on behalf of the Defendants over the mass demolition of houses on the land, upon an order granted to the Claimants to enter the disputed area to survey same for the purposes of making a litigation survey plan. In the said suit, the area which was alleged to be in dispute, and which was said to be the subject of the Consent Judgment sought to be set aside, was described as Osunkwe Forest.
Also in SUIT NO: AKU/118/2025 which was also filed by Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor on behalf of the Ogbeozoma Community, Okpanam, and in which the Akpoma Quarter is a Defendant, the subject matter of which is the said Consent Judgment, the land in contention, in relation to the Consent Judgment was again described as Osunkwe Forest.
The Survey Plan of the land which the Cubana Millennium City is situated, is purported to be on the same Osunkwe Forest. This description is again reflected in the CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY NO. DTSR 26539 registered in FILE NO. LUC 4758 referenced in the X post of Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor.
Recall that I had earlier stated that while the Akpoma Community of Issele – Azagba describe the land as Akpoma Family Land, the Ogbeozoma Community of Okpanam refer to it as Osunkwe Forest. The two names refer to one and the same land, which is the land subject to the consent judgment.
Be that as it may, if there is any doubt as to the identity of the land awarded the Akpoma Community of Issele – Azagba, the physical features are unmistakable. The sketch accompanying the Consent Judgment, clearly places all lands to the left while standing along the Asaba/Benin Express Road while facing Wichtech Company on the territory of Akpoma Community. Cubana Millennium City sits squarely on a parcel of land situated in the center of Akpoma Family land.
THE SUBSISTENCE OF THE CONSENT JUDGMENT:
CUBANA MILLENNIUM CITY LIMITED must understand that the Consent Judgment in SUIT NO. HCI/5/2012 is a subsisting Court Judgment. Having not been set aside, it is binding. The said Consent Judgment awarded the land where CUBANA MILLENNIUM CITY is being developed in favour of Akpoma Quarter.
Akpoma Quarter is the owner of the land, and the CUBANA MILLENNIUM CITY LIMITED is a trespasser on the land.
THE COURT ACTION AGAINST CUBANA MILLENNIUM PROPERTIES LIMITED.
There is a pending Court action against CUBANA MILLENNIUM CITY LIMITED in SUIT NO. HCI/3/2026 BETWEEN: DIOKPA DOMINIC MOKOGWU & ANOR. V. CUBANA MILLENNIUM PROPERTIES LIMITED.
CUBANA MILLENNIUM PROPERTIES LIMITED has been served the relevant Court papers in their office in Lagos and at the site where they are illegally constructing the CUBANA MILLENNIUM CITY in Akpoma Family Land, Issele – Azagba.
DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS MADE BY MR. IFEANYI EJIOFOR.
It is very unusual for a legal practitioner to levy unverified allegations and make scathing remarks of a magnitude that is capable of affecting the integrity and public perception of a colleague in such a manner that Mr. Ejiofor has done. It still baffles me why he has gone on a campaign of calumny against my person. Lawyers are not made of that stuff.
We carry ourselves with so much dignity, and guard our words with caution. Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor’s vituperations and libelous publications will not go unchallenged. Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor must surely have his day in Court if he does not retract the defamatory statements made against me.
THE PETITION WRITTEN TO THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE:
Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor prides himself with having written a petition against me for professional misconduct. The petition was written since April, 2025. However, up until this moment, I have not been called upon to answer to any allegation of professional misconduct.
I am not afraid of petitions. I will stand by the truth and continue on the path of integrity and forthrightness, no matter whose ox is gored.
Members of the public are by this publication advised to disregard the sponsored falsehood being spewed and bandied about by Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor and his cohorts.
We are confident that no matter how long it takes, justice will be served for our Clients, and for us.
LARRY OLISA, ESQ.
PP: LARRY OLISA CHAMBERS.
NO. 1, LARRY OLISA CLOSE,
OKOTOMI, G.R.A. PHASE II,
ASABA,
DELTA STATE.
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