Anambra airport: Women protest half-naked, accuse gov’t of land grabbing

Women from Umuleri in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State, yesterday, in their numbers protested half-naked over what they described as grabbing of their land by the state government under the pretext of building an airport in the state.

The women accused the state governor, Willie Obiano, and top government officials of partitioning their land for personal use.

They marched around the airport premises, chanting and making unprintable remarks about the governor. They also made bonfires on the airport road.

The protesters vowed to resist any attempt by the government and its agents to deprive their children of their inheritance.

They carried placards with various inscriptions such as: “Enuagu, Umuinu and Umuopu kindred gave 729.606 hectares of land to the Anambra government during the Chris Ngige era, but Obiano's government forcefully took additional 1,200 hectares.”

Others were: “Anambra government has taken over our lands; where do we farm? Are we to become refugees in our own land?”

The chairman community, Ndumanya, development and wicked.

“We are the people of Ifite Umuleri. We are the people that donated airport land to the of the Uchenna described the as unfortunate

Anambra State Government during the Dr Chris Ngige regime, about 14 years ago.

“When we donated the land we gave them about 729.66 hectares but now they have left that particular place we donated to them and just encroached into our individual lands.

“They are now encroaching into about 1,901 hectares, about three times of what we gave to the state government. We had our first protest on the matter in 2019. And since then nothing has been done,” he alleged.