The Okeze family of Umu Isoh Quarters, Umu Ezeagwu Village of Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State have staged a peaceful protest against the forceful takeover of their family land, saying they did not enter into any form of transaction with the present occupants of the land.
The protest took the Oshimili North Local Government Chairman, Hon. Innocent Esenwezie, by surprise as he arrived to attend the Public Hearing on the Executive Bill to provide for a bye law on Public/Private Properties Protection 2023, which took place at Oshimili North Local Government Area Liaison Office, Ibusa.
Speaking on behalf of the Okeze family, the land committee chairman, Mr. Udegbunam Chizea Okeze condemned the irrevocable power of attorney placed on their land. The council boss directed developers to stop work on the land until further notice, promising to treat the matter with dispatch.
He said the LG Chairmen just returned from a meeting with the State Governor and that land management was part of the deliberations, so the searchlight of the state is already beamed on issues such as the one brought by the Okeze family.
Esenwezie assured them that if they were protesting to retake their land, then manage the land, not to sell them off, they should be rest assured that whatever decisions reached after investigation, government will implement it.
Esenwezie said all parties would be summoned in a bid to resolve the issue, assuring the protesters that “if their land has been wrongfully taken, it will be retrieved and given back to the rightful owner.
0 Comments