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HRH Eze Blaise O Uba
The newly coronated traditional ruler of Mgbala Agwa Autonomous Community of Imo State, HRH Eze Blaise O. Uba, has dismissed a newspaper publication which claimed that he went ahead to hold the coronation ceremony against the order of court stopping the event.
He declared that there was no court order stopping his coronation on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, pointing out that the newspaper publication was an act of mischief and misrepresentation of facts to the general public.
The Eze said that as a retired police officer he has respect for the laws of the land can never show the slightest disrespect for the judiciary, which he described as the last hope of the people and the soul of the society.
According to the Eze, te writer of the misleading article was one of the contestants to the throne who participated to the last process in the selection of the Eze but “as God would have it, I emerged the Eze.”
Speaking on the allegation of certificate forgery and identity theft, Eze Uba dismissed it as false, saying that the G4 mentioned in the newspaper publication was not a certificate but a testimonial. He explained that no one could present it anywhere in Nigeria as certificate.
“I did not contest the Eze with the G4. It is a testimonial and not a certificate and no one can present it anywhere in the country as a certificate,” Eze Uba explained.
The Eze also said that the matter of the forged certificate had been brought before the DSS and that he was cleared, stressing that certificate forgery is a criminal offence in the country and that there was no way the DSS would have left anyone who had forged one.
He said: “After my First School Leaving Certificate, my father said he was not going to send me to secondary school because he did not have the money to do so. Then I went to stay with my uncle, late Mr. Donatus Echefu Agumadu, who was a staff of SDPC. He promised to send me to school and ensure that I completed my secondary school.
“Then I got admission into Madona High School, Ihitte, doing classes 1 to 4 before the war broke out. I returned home during the war and joined the Biafran Army. But I later wrote my GCE.
“I am a devout Catholic and I have always used my name Damian – which is my confirmation name, Onuoha – which is my native name, Blaise – which is my baptismal name and with which I am more popularly known, and Uba – my surname. All of them are my names.”
The Eze called on his subjects to continue to maintain the peace and unity in the community and shun all acts of criminality.
