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A Call for Peace, Due Process and Respect for the Cour By Amichi Peace and Justice Initiative Amichi has always been greater than any temporary leadership dispute. From our villages, kindreds, age grades, cultural groups and institutions, we have inherited a tradition of dialogue, communal responsibility and respect for constituted authority. That tradition should guide us now. There is presently a subsisting Order of the High Court of Anambra State, Nnewi Judicial Division, in Suit No. HN/215/2022, made on 21 July 2026, concerning the leadership of the Amichi Development Union. Whatever interpretation any individual, faction, Trustee, former executive member, government official or community group may place on that Order, one principle should remain beyond controversy: No person should deliberately take steps calculated to defeat, circumvent or render a subsisting Court Order ineffective merely because he disagrees with it. The tenure of the former President-General expired on 6 Augus...

CONCERNED CITIZENS WARN AGAINST DISOBEDIENCE OF SUBSISTING COURT ORDER Urge Board of Trustees to avoid self-help, respect pending litigation and seek judicial clarification where necessary By Concerned Citizens of Amichi Concerned Citizens of Amichi have called on all parties to the lingering leadership dispute in Amichi Development Union, particularly the Board/Registered Trustees of the Union, to exercise restraint and avoid any action capable of undermining the subsisting Order of the High Court of Anambra State. The intervention follows fresh public comments attributed to the Anambra State Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Barr. Vin Ifeanyi Ezeaka, concerning the leadership of Amichi Development Union. The dispute is presently before the High Court of Anambra State, Nnewi Judicial Division, in Suit No. HN/215/2022, between: Mr. Chukwuemeka Ezekiel Udogu & Ors. — Plaintiffs and 1. Hon. Attorney-General of Anambra State and Commissioner for Jus...