Eleme local government authorities have raised alarm over what it describes as an invasion and encroachment of land grabbers into the ancestral land of Eleme people.
The action which they said is taking place along the woji-Aleto-Alesa link road and the agbonchia-Akpajo axis of the portharcourt ring road has become a source of concern due to the security threats it poses to residents and people of Eleme.
This has prompted the chairman of Eleme local government area, Obarilomate Ollor, who doubles as the chief security officer of the LGA to share the ordeals of Eleme people through a media briefing.
The chairman, while calling on relevant authorities to wade in and forestall a breakdown of law and other said farmers in the LGA are now compelled to pay illegal levies in order to access their farmlands.
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Obarilomate Ollor said that as a way of deescalating the tension in the area, his administration has signed an executive order suspending the activities of real estate developers in Eleme local government area.
The chairman further clarified that the area in question has already been gazetted with the white paper report of Hon.justice Charles Granville judicial commission of enquiry into the Eleme Ogu/Okirika communal conflict and the 1957 supreme Court Judgement which validates the ownership of the land in question by the people of Eleme.
(Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie)
