Land owners at Onuojukwu land Ezinifite village, Agunenwe land Ezinifite, Agunenwe land Okochi, and Adakamulunwa land Ezinifite, all in Okpuno, Awka South LGA, behind the new Government House, have staged a peaceful, calling on the state government to help them peacefully recover their lands from suspected land grabbers; some of whom they said are in the government and acting through proxies.
Speaking after they visited the portions of land where fences were pulled down and new ones and other structures coming up, Mr Emma Ezeobi said the land they bought from original owners as far back as 2007/2012, with relevant documents, are being encroached upon by unknown persons, adding that attempts to repossess their land have been met with arrest and police intimidation.
Contributing, another land owner Mr. Anthony Igwebuike Agbo, aged 65, said he is heartbroken that land he bought with his hard-earned money is being toyed with, calling for urgent government intervention, as he said that those who sold land to them have denied being behind their present predicament.
On her part, Mrs Oluchi Onyekachi, said the development brought to the area by the new Anambra Government House forced to the land grabbers to start dispossessing people of their land, leading to destruction of farm lands and other economic trees.
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the land owners said they had sometimes in the past briefed relevant authorities, including the Traditional Ruler of Okpuno, Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Lands, on the activities of land grabbers on the said lands.
