Ondo FECA Workers, Students Stage Protest Against Land Grabbers
A protest has been staged by staff and students of the Federal College of Agriculture, Akure Ondo State, against the action of alleged land grabbers encroaching on the land belonging to the institution.
The protest, which took place on Friday, saw participants take their grievance to the Zone 17 office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, the governor’s office, and the palace of Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi.
Speaking during the protest, the chairman of the Academic Staff Union of the College, Mr Kayode Sule, said,“What is going on is that we have had this problem of land grabbers coming from time to time to disturb us in the college.
“As we are speaking now, they are right inside the college, bulldozing lands, destroying economic trees, destroying those things that we use in the training of our students, all the economic trees and crops being bulldozed by land grabbers even as we speak now.
“Why we are coming out to protest again is to tell the whole world, to tell the government, every concerned citizen and stakeholders in the country that enough is enough that an end must be put to these incessant harassments by land grabbers.”
Sule concluded by urging land grabbers to wait for the outcome of court cases concerning the land before taking action.
Placards displayed by the protesters has inscriptions such as ‘Don’t send FECA into extinction,’ ‘Rescue FECA from land grabbers,’ ‘ FECA land is not for sale’, ‘Federal Government should come to FECA’s aid,’ ‘Allow FECA to breathe,’ among others.
