Anambra State Government has ordered members of the Eziubulu family in Ifite Village, Nkwelle Ezunaka, Oyi Council Area, owners of Aboigwugwu Land, otherwise called Hill View Estate, to suspend all ongoing works at the estate boundaries until all outstanding issues are amicably resolved.
The order followed the ongoing illegal re-channeling of the Ekulu and Oja Rivers on the boundary of the estate with a swamp buggy by the host family in a bid to acquire more land for sale, thereby damaging the ecosystem of the estate, exposing it to erosion, and its inhabitants to disasters.
Conducting newsmen round the site, the Managing Director, Anambra State Housing Development Corporation (ASHDC), Mr. Chike Anyaonu, who traced the origin of the estate back to 2005, frowned that at 95% completion, it is still suffering from perimeter fence demolition, environmental degradation, and all manner of dangerous encroachments.
Narrating his encounter with the host community in the recent past when they applied for appropriate boundary re-establishment through their lawyer, Mr. Anyaonu, while testifying that the corporation assented to their request, made it clear that the host family was asked to pay the cost into the government purse, as the exercise, according to him, would be carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Lands via the Office of the Surveyor General.
Expressing shock over the host family’s attitude of reneging on paying the stipulated bill they had earlier agreed to for the boundary re-establishment, the ASHDC boss wondered why, without government approval, they swung into action with the re-channeling, acquisition, and boundary re-establishment, describing their actions as unjustifiable.
Source: abs
