Traditional leader begs Ogun gov to tame land grabbers
The ancient chief in the Eredo neighborhood in Obafemi-Owode Local Govt Set of Ogun Remark, Chief Rasak Amujara, and different residents maintain cried out to the impart Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, over the activities of land grabbers who foment ache and reason clashes in the distance.
Amujara appealed to the governor and security agencies to intervene and defend the neighborhood from the alleged activities of the land grabbers.
In accordance with him, the land grabbers were terrorising the neighborhood, using thugs and deceptive paperwork to position claim to lands belonging to innocent electorate.
The alleged land grabbers are accused of conniving with some officers in the Bureau of Lands and Look for to position claims to other folks’s lands and dump the lands to deepest contributors, including Chinese nationals, whereas displacing farmers and landowners.
The neighborhood chief alleged that the duo uses the name of the Ogun Remark authorities to deceive landowners, claiming that their lands were taken over for overriding public curiosity.
He expressed quandary that the activities of these alleged land grabbers terminate no longer only paint the neighborhood in a imperfect light nonetheless also assign inhabitants in fright mode each time they originate their acts.
Amujara urged Governor Abiodun to own immediate action to stop the alleged land grabbers and defend the rights of the neighborhood’s inhabitants.
A feminine victim, who prefers anonymity for peril of attack, acknowledged she bought acres of land and modified into as soon as displaced, nonetheless now she has reported the case to the police.
She expressed deep quandary that if no drastic action is taken, the activities of these land grabbers would possibly perhaps per chance well lead to communal clashes, asserting, “We don’t want a crisis delight in the one in Benue right here.”
“The neighborhood is asking for pressing intervention to prevent additional escalation of the quandary,” Alhaji Mukaila Amao, a resident of Eredo, acknowledged.
