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Worried by the monolithic acquisition of their ancestral farmland measuring astir 200 hectares by the Imo State Government, the radical of Ugakwoche successful Egbule Obube community, Owerri North Local Government Area, staged a peaceful protestation demanding that the authorities halt the determination to get their remaining farmland.
Members of the community, comprising adults, youths, aged men and women, connected Wednesday marched from their colony quadrate to the implicit two-kilometre agelong of the affected farmland, which borders the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport road. Dressed successful achromatic attire and wielding placards, they cried and rolled connected the crushed to explicit their pain.
Some of the placards bore inscriptions specified as: “All the onshore belonging to Ugakwoche is gone,” “No to onshore grabbers,” “Your Excellency, delight travel to our rescue,” “Our radical are nether siege,” “Our ancestral farmland is gone,” “Our children’s aboriginal is successful danger,” “We don’t person different onshore to farm,” and “Do not bring criminality to our assemblage owed to deficiency of farmland for our youths.”
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