Friday, 3 February 2023
Developing Story | 3rd February 2023
If drastic steps are not taken to quell the brewing family crisis, Mrs Onari Duke, wife of former governor of Cross River State, Mr Donald Duke might be facing a legal battle over a piece of property located at Elakahia Housing Estate in Port Harcourt, Rivers state she allegedly sized from an 8-year-old said to be her late brother's son.
According to a letter sighted by our correspondent as written by Barr B. Dike of C.W. Omeke and Co, located at No. 4 Celila Plaza, Rukpokwu, Port Harcourt, the said property belongs to Mrs Pele Bobmanuel Kent, whose solicitors they are. The document also noted that she has engaged their services as er legal team with the hope of recovering the property from Mrs Duke who is said to have leased out the property and solely enjoying the proceeds.
The legal team of Mrs Pele Bobmanuel have therefore, requested occupants of the said property not to renew their rent to Mrs Duke but vacate the property at the expiration of their current tenancy which expires in March this year.
Our reporter gathered that the property originally belongs to Late Mr Anthony Karibi Bobmanuel, younger brother to Mrs Onari Duke. Duke illegally sized the property from her brother's widow not minding that her brother left behind a son.
She is said to have leased the property out for three years without letting her nephew have access to the proceeds of his supposed inheritance.
Mrs Duke is said to have used a Calabar-based estate agent Gersh Henshaw and co to rent out the Port Harcourt property 3 years ago when her nephew’s father died.
The eviction notice served the occupants of the property by C.W. Omeke and Co with backings from the Magistrate Court in Rivers State came in when the original owner of the property got the hint that Mrs Duke is planning to rent the property for another 3 years. The court has therefore stopped her moves as she has no legal right to manage the property.
When TDN contacted Tessy Bobmanuel, Wife of the Late Mr Anthony Karibi Bobmanuel the younger brother to Mrs Onari Duke, she reveal attempts several attempts to plead with Mrs Dukto e to enable them have access to the Said property even after the court injunction have met brick walls.
Attempting to get Mrs Onari Duke's side of the story is proving to be an Herculean task, we shall continue to update this story as events unfold.
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