Owerri North Housing Estates Limited is a trust corporation carrying out the development of the new ultra modern residential and commercial estate in the Egbu/Uratta Layout of Owerri North called Umuorii Rainbow Estate. OWR(M)499 in favour of Owerri North Housing Estates Limited.
Ministry of Lands, Survey & Urban Planning Letter of Change of Purpose Clause No. MLSUP/DTP/OS/1612/1/42 dated 224/08
/2006.
Deed of Irrevocable Power of Attorney granted by Owerri North Local Government to Owerri North Housing Estates Limited dated 30/3/2007 and registered as No. 38/38/948 of the Lands Registry Owerri.
Registered judgments of Owerri High Court supporting ownership by Owerri North Housing Estates Limited. OUR OBLIGATIONS TO BUYER/DEVELOPER
To sell plots and give valid title to Buyer.
To handle documentation and register title for Buyer.
To provide professional management to the Estate, including provision and maintenance of estate roads, commercial water boreholes, electricity, security, etc. with the terms of agreement
PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS
Total No. of Plots: 130, with some reviews ongoing..
Sizes of Plots: 380 – 950 Sq. Mts.
Special plots: Primary/Nursery School, Market, Public Utilities, Police Post.
Entrance and exit gates.
Estate fencing and paving.
Vehicular access to both site and individual plots is excellent.
2 No well-reticulated commercial water boreholes with hydrant stations.
4 No. 300KVA Transformers will strengthen electricity supply from the national grid.
24 hour security in liaison with the Police.
All plot owners/developers subscribe to a common neighbourhood security and street maintenance programme. BUILDING/PROPERTY FORMS:
Three main forms of buildings are envisaged.
Zone A: Exotic/Modern Bungalows.
Zone 8: Duplexes.
Zone C: Storied Buildings. Owing to defacements of the Estate by trespassers between 2016 and 2021, extensive demolitions aimed at correcting the defacements are in the pipeline currently. Full realization of the approved standards is expected to be achieved in Year 2022. CHARACTERISICS OF BUILDING/PROPETY FORMS
- A good mix of residential and commercial buildings must be achieved.
- Harmony, style, feeling and expression are to be freely made by developers in designing their buildings. However, only those approved by the Estate Architects will be allowed.
- Actual positioning of buildings on plots requires the prior approval of the supervising architects to meet approved standards. A time frame of two years is prescribed for every purchaser of a plot to develop and occupy his/her property. The project is, indeed, a very bad one for land speculators and persons unable who are not ready to start construction. OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION
It is important that interested buyers should be warned of land tricksters and thieves from the host community who at times fraudulently claim to have the authority of the corporation to offer plots for sale. Every one is advised to deal directly with the reputable solicitors of the trust corporation only, namely
1. Nwigwe & Uchegbu Chambers .
36, Law Nwankwo Street
Sam Mbakwe Avenue
Off Control Post
Opposite Princeton School
Owerri. Phone: +2347031561876
Email: [email protected]
2. Nnodim Njoku & Co
35, School Road
Owerri. Phone: +2347011662870
Email: [email protected]
3. Ihukwumere Chambers
11, Tetlow Road
Owerri. Phone: +23408037235680
Email: [email protected]
IMPORTANT UPDATES FOR NOVEMBER 2021 FOR OLD VICTIMS OF PLOT FRAUDS
The following updates are in response to enquiries which project managers have continued to receive from persons who claim to have lost money to land tricksters and thieves around the Estate between 2016 and 2020:-
1. ON OPTIONS STILL OPEN TO PERSONS TO RECOVER THEIR LOSSES. The attention of such victims is hereby drawn to the final orders of Owerri High Court in Contempt Proceeding No. HOW/290M/2019 in which the lead fraudsters were the 1st Set of Respondents. On October 14, 2021 the court ordered against them thus:-
“The contemnors shall within 14 days comply with the judgment in Suit No. HOW/320/2006 by quitting the subject land (i.e. Plot P.10 Egbu/Uratta layout Owerri and also replacing all survey beacons and other structures of the Judgment Beneficiary/Applicant destroyed/demolished by the 1st Set of Respondents while in contempt of the judgment in Suit No. HOW/320/2006”.
“Refund the purchase price and all monies they may have demanded and received from third parties to whom they purportedly sold plots of the subject land whilke in contempt of the judgment in Suit No. HOW/320/2006”.
“Order of perpetual injunction is made restraining the 1st Set of Respondents, their Heirs, Privies, Assigns, Customers, Clients, Developers, Town Union Officials, Youth officials, etc from any further entering of the subject property and/or interfering in any manner whatsoever in the Judgment Beneficiary/Applicant’s management or development of Plot P.10 Egbu/Uratta Layout Owerri”.
2. The court also ordered the Commissioner of Police Imo State, the Director Department of State Services and the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) “to take all necessary steps in exercise of their statutory powers and ensure that members of the public are not further fleeced by the 1st Set of Respondents in contempt of the judgment in Suit No. HOW/320/2006”.
3. ON WHETHER IT IS TRUE THAT THE LAND FRAUDSTERS HAVE PENDING APPEALS ON THE JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS OF COURT OBTAINED AGAINST THEM:-
There is no pending appeal, whether at the Court of Appeal or at the Supreme Court, against the Owerri High Court judgment in Suit No. HOW/320/2006, given on 10th July 2007, This was the judgment which vested the rights of occupancy of the entire Estate land on the trust corporation. Even by 31st January 2007, the time allowed for a constitutional appeal against the judgment had long elapsed. There is also no pending appeal against the Owerri High Court judgment in Suit No. HOW/583/2018, given on 6th September 2018. This judgment vested possession of the entire Estate land on the trust corporation. The time for an appeal has also long elapsed. Neither is there any pending appeal against the Owerri High Court orders in Suit No. HOW/583/2018 by which all illegal developers forfeited their structures to ONHEL since 16th September 2019.
