Revealed! Jubilee hotel, Ojukwu’s daughter’s inheritance sold twice

Findings at the weekend revealed that the house in Zaria, Kaduna State, which was willed by the late Biafran warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu to his newly unveiled daughter, Tenny Haman, has been sold. The first person to buy it from Ojukwu got it at N2 million and converted it to a hotel But sources said the place, known as Jubilee Hotel, was later re-sold to someone else for N7 million
Sunday Mirror’s investigation revealed that the former Jubilee Hotel, once the residence of Chief Ojukwu, located at New Hospital Road, Sabon – Gari, Zaria is now undergoing renovation and it is not clear what its new owner intends to do with it.
The first person to buy the building from Ojukwu (names withheld), apparently an Igbo man, abandoned the hotel business in Zaria, making him to resell it and relocate to his country home in Nnewi in Anambra State.
It would be recalled that the muchawaited Will of the ex-Biafran leader was read last Friday at the Enugu High Court by the Chief Registrar of Enugu State High Court, Mr. Dennis Ekoh which threw up some surprises as the late warlord identified an unknown daughter, Tenny Harman, as the inheritor of the Zaria building which was widely perceived to be an hotel belonging to Ojukwu.
But when the codicil was read, it was observed that the hotel had been sold. Thus, she is to receive the proceeds from the sale. Haman, one of Ojukwu’s children was said to have been fathered by the former Biafran leader through a Sierra Leonean woman he met while serving as the Commander of the 5th Battalion in Kano in the 1960s.
Sunday Mirror observed that the house has been under renovation and reconstruction as no one is sure of the intention of the new owner with the building.
Meanwhile, there have been no indications that the controversy trailing the reading of the Ojukwu will would soon abate.
Emeka Jnr, who claim to be the first son of Ojukwu, had described the document as fake. He dismissed the Will presented by Barr Emeka Onyemelukwe, saying he is a private counsel to Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu and not that of his dad Ojukwu Jnr argued that he has a copy of the original Will written by his father and not what he described as the fraud presented as a Will. He said,“There have been rumours that there is an attempt to read the will and that they intend to make changes in the original Will. Well, I have not seen the Will that they read.
“Now, there are issues that come to mind, why were there no members of Ojukwu family when the Will was read? They were not invited and they were not told. “She was here last Sunday when we removed the mourning cloth and since she knows that the Will would be read, she would have invited us or even put us on notice. “
“Now, the lawyer that is supposedly doing all this things is not our father’s lawyer, Mr Onyemelukwe is not a lawyer that is known to the family as Ezeigbo’s lawyer. Remember when Ezeigbo was sick, the same Lawyer went to the press to claim that Ezeigbo is getting better and that he is now on exercise and would soon come home and he was lying.
“It is still the same lawyer that claimed to have custody of the Will. And I told everybody that it was not true and that since my father was flown to England, he never lifted an arm or spoke a word until his death finally”.
In the same vein, Debe, another claimant to the first son position in the Ojukwu family also dismissed the Will.

National Mirror