{"id":162842,"date":"2025-05-17T09:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt"},"modified":"2025-05-17T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T09:24:33","slug":"my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My life now in danger\u2019 \u2013 Ex-Education Secretary tells AIG, Abia Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Eighty-two-year-old former Education Secretary in Abia State, Onukwuo Joseph Onuegbu has appealed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 9 Umuahia and the Abia State government to save him from being killed because of his land.<\/p>\n<p>Onukwue, who addressed journalists at the Correspondents\u2019 Chapel office in Umuahia, alleged that some members of Ogbuti family inflicted injuries on him recently and also threatened to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>He said that some members of the Ogbuti family in March, 2025, violently chased him and his daughter, Christiana away from a parcel of land called Ebeh, which he said was inherited from his late father in 1957 and that he had been farming or leasing it out to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>He also complained to the AIG that the report he made at Bende Division of Nigerian Police Force was messed up, prompting him to report the matter to the Amaogwu village arbitration Panel for amicable handling of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut during the second day of the arbitration Panel, they pounced on me, beating me with a big stick, dislocating my left shoulder and inflicting a big injury on my head. They earlier beat an 80-year-old man, Iroanya Onukwuo to stupor,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Onukwue, who said he was still struggling to recover from the injuries he suffered, expressed the fear that his life is endangered by the threat.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Ogbuti Chukwuemeka, who responded on behalf of the Ogbuti family, told journalists that nobody beat Onukwuo Joseph Onuegbu or threatened his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am telling you that nobody beat him, nobody chased him or is threatening his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have boundaries with him, he is the one dragging my own land which I have been operating for over 40 years,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Eighty-two-year-old former Education Secretary in Abia State, Onukwuo Joseph Onuegbu has appealed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 9 Umuahia and the Abia State government to save him from being killed because of his land. Onukwue, who addressed journalists at the Correspondents\u2019 Chapel office in Umuahia, alleged that some members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":162840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[13810,2466,254],"class_list":["post-162842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abia-govt","tag-aig","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018My life now in danger\u2019 \u2013 Ex-Education Secretary tells AIG, Abia Govt - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eighty-two-year-old former Education Secretary in Abia State, Onukwuo Joseph Onuegbu has appealed to the Assistant Inspe ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018My life now in danger\u2019 \u2013 Ex-Education Secretary tells AIG, Abia Govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eighty-two-year-old former Education Secretary in Abia State, Onukwuo Joseph Onuegbu has appealed to the Assistant Inspe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-17T08:22:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-17T09:24:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747461305.445205.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u2018My life now in danger\u2019 \u2013 Ex-Education Secretary tells AIG, Abia Govt\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-17T08:22:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-17T09:24:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt\"},\"wordCount\":308,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747461305.445205.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abia govt\",\"AIG\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/my-life-now-in-danger-ex-education-secretary-tells-aig-abia-govt\",\"name\":\"\u2018My life now in danger\u2019 \u2013 Ex-Education Secretary tells AIG, Abia Govt - 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