By Tony Edike

ENUGU—PROPERTY worth about N100 million belonging to Glotor Nigeria Limited, owned by renowned auto dealer, Mr. Arthur Orakpo, was demolished on the orders of Enugu State government at the weekend for allegedly encroaching on the water buffer zone of Asaba River bank.

The property, which included two one-storey buildings, security house and the fence, had reached advanced stage of completion before the state government rolled bulldozers to the site located on Ogui Road, by Conoil Mega Filling Station, Enugu, Saturday morning.

The demolition was carried out in spite of a subsisting order of an Enugu High Court, made by Justice A. R. Ozoemena, restraining Governor Sullivan Chime, his Commissioner for Works, Mr. Godwin Madueke, Enugu Central Town Planning Authority, Alukwu and Sons Limited, Mr. Ben Alukwu, and their agents, from entering into the premises for purposes of demolition.

Justice Ozoemena had given the order on April 27 this year to forestall the demolition of the property, pending the determination of the substantive suit brought by Glotor Nigeria Limited through its counsel, Tagbo Ike, on the matter relating to the land which the company leased from Nigeria Railway Corporation.