College of Agric protests land grabbing, begs Tinubu to urgently intervene
Aggrieved members of staff and students of the Federal College of Agriculture Akure (FECA), in Ondo State, have called on the federal government led by President Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene in the massive encroachment into the school by land grabbers.
At a protest on Friday, both the staff and students said the activities of the land grabbers into the college to sell off hectares of land was becoming worrisome to the management.
Daily Trust Saturday reports that the protesters, who converged at the entrance of the college marched through the Alagbaka Governor’s office in Akure, the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Zone 17, to the Palace of Deji of Akure, Oba Aladelusi Ogunlade Aladetoyinbo.
The protesters wielded placards bearing different inscriptions such as: ‘FG should come to FECA’s aid’; ‘Allow FECA to breathe’; ‘FECA land is not for sale’; ‘Don’t send FECA into extinction’; ‘Rescue FECA from land grabbers’, among others.
Speaking with journalists on behalf of the protestors, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union in the College,
Kayode Sule, said that the activities of the land grabbers were illegal, noting that the invaders in collaboration with hoodlums are destroying economic trees on the campus.
While noting that the college had been in court with several cases on the land grabbers, Mr Sule said that there was an urgent need for the college staff and students to cry out loudly before the institution goes into extinction in the hands of land grabbers.
He urged President Tinubu and the people of the Akure community to rise by defending the land mass of the college in the interest of future opportunities and expansion.