Displeased with the acts of governance by Chairman Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa, representatives of some communities in the local government area staged a peaceful protest, over what they termed indiscriminate sales of farmlands by council chairman Juda Amisa.
The protesters carried placards with inscriptions; ‘No to sales of our ancestral lands, ‘Return back our 500 hecters of the land’.
Ahijo Yakubu who spoke on behalf of the communities accused Amisa for allegedly selling 10 hecters of the said land to a ward councillor, while another 500 hecters have been demarcated for sale.
“The lands in question are individual farmlands for use by poor people who are mostly farmers.
“We officially complained to the state Assembly against chairman Girei whose policies are anti-people and misleading the state government in respect of our ancestral farmlands.
“The council Boss, is of the habit of selling our land to some group and we are been threatened badly”, Yakubu said.
When contacted, Girei council Boss, Juda Amisa told newsmen that, the farmlands in question were demarcated as Government Reserved Area.
“Protesters to verify their claims with the state ministry of environment, land, and survey”, he said.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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