Actor Nkem Owoh(Osuofia) Entangled In Land Tussle With Widow

Mrs. Gloria Ayogu, a secondary school teacher, is threatening legal actions against Nollywood actor, Nkem Owoh, popularly known as Osuofia, if he fails to pay damages for allegedly demolishing her house in Enugu State.
The widow has since 2008 been at war with Owoh over a piece of land at 9, Ikpeama Street, Emeheluaku Layout, Trans-Ekulu in Enugu.


The widow who says she reported the case to the police said her late husband bought and registered the landed property before he died in 2004.
She claimed that Osuofia and his thugs appeared in 2008 and threatened her for four years against building on the land. She however called his bluff and went ahead to build a bungalow, which she claims her husband started developing before he took ill and died.
Shortly after she completed the bungalow,which she said she built with a loan-and was on the verge of moving in, “Osuofia made good his threats and pulled down the house on September 30, 2012,” she said.
Mrs Ayogu also said that she had discovered that the documents to the property was missing. She then lodged a complaint at the state Ministry of Lands where she was advised to put up newspaper publications which she did. “It was after this, in 2006, that Nkem Owoh, popularly known as Osuofia and some people came to ask me who I was and if I was the owner of the property.”
She said, “I didn’t see them for some time until one day he resurfaced and said I have to stop work on the site because at that time I had started building. Not long afterwards, he demolished the house.”

However, when contacted Nkem Owoh denied the allegations.
He said, “This woman is going to put herself in trouble. I bought a land and the land is causing trouble between the woman and her husband’s first wife. They are struggling over the same piece of land, so why would the woman say it was me that demolished her house?”
“Why is she trying to scandalise my name when she knows there is a family dispute over the land? I don’t know anything about the demolition. I bought the property but they are having problems there, I mean the two wives. Why wouldn’t this woman go to court and sort these things out once and for all?”

While Owoh insisted Ayogu and her co-wife were struggling over the land, the widow maintained that she was the only wife of her husband and that there was no tussle over the land.

When Osuofia was asked to give the contacts of whoever sold the land to him, he said it was long he bought it and had lost touch with the people.