…As Govt Demolishes Illegal Structures
Chairman, Task force on recovery of government land, Chief Frank Omare has restated intention to hunt land grabbers and community leaders engaged in stealing of government lands.
Omare made this known while speaking with journalists during the demolition exercise at Camp 74 in Asaba.
He said government would not allow the land grabbers and some of the leaders who had misinformed the victims in the state by stealing government lands to go free as their actions was an offence.
While advising Deltans to always verify the authenticity of a land before acquiring it, he said the demolition was not about the governor, Rt. Hon.Sheriff Oborevwori, himself nor targetted at anybody but was the policy of the government.
He said the retrieval was following a court order earlier issued to them, notifying them to evacuate the area, adding that it was not an impromptu action as many of them claimed.
Frowning at the reactions of the victims, he said it was an oftence for them to request for compensation as their acts was criminal and calls for punishment by the government.
He said they were meant to pay government for possession of the lands which they have occupied for years, since the inception of kefas, adding that they had enjoyed it during Ibori, Uduaghan, Okowa’s tenure.
Omare said government would stop at nothing in acquiring it’s land in the hands of land grabbers, adding that in no distance time government land Ughelli, Warri, Isoko, Agbor, Kwale, Patani, Ibusa, and other parts of the state will be reclaimed.
