Land grabbing: Villagers urge Abia Govt to enforce court order, avert violence

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The members of Umunenweze village, Okaiuga Nkwoegwu autonomous community, Umuahia North LGA of Abia State, person appealed to the Abia State authorities to urgently prevention them from onshore grabbers.

The assemblage members who made the entreaty during a protestation astatine the disputed Okpuijikara onshore connected Wednesday, said the assemblage whitethorn descent into hunger and unit if nary urgent involution comes from the Abia State government.

The spokesperson of Umunenweze village, Onyekachi Igbojionu, who presented the presumption of the community, expressed interest that ancestral onshore preserved for farming and aboriginal lodging needs of the community, has been donated to immoderate backstage property developers by a fewer members of the community, without the cognition and support of indigenes.

According to Igbojionu, onshore grabbing activities person continued connected the onshore contempt a tribunal bid issued by Justice A.U. Kalu of Abia State High Court, Umuahia, successful suit No. HU/163/2022.

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