Protest rocks Abia community over destruction of farmlands, arrest of indigenes

Indigenes of Amaidi, Onuzo and Amanyanwu villages successful Imobi Uturu, Isuikwuato LGA of Abia State connected Friday, protested the demolition of their farmlands by bulldozers, crying retired that they were neither informed oregon compensated earlier the exercise.

The agrarian assemblage alleged that the farms were destroyed by a mining institution to pave mode for mining and chromatic crushing activities.

They added that 2 of their sons, Cyprain Obite and Chinedum Oguguo, were arrested for protesting the penetration of their lands.

According to the Imobi indigenes, immoderate individuals from the assemblage signed an statement for the mining of granite successful their onshore without conducting Environmental Impact Assessment astir the dangers of the the enactment oregon carrying the radical along.

Speaking done Emeka Onyeanusi, Chukwuma Agu, the pistillate person Mrs Joy Chukwuemeka and others, the Imobi autonomous assemblage indigenes appealed to Governor Alex Otti to intervene successful the matter.

The villagers who sat connected the destroyed farmlands during the protest, said they were not against the mining of the ...