Ondo farmers, lawmaker kick as govt allegedly ceed 50,000 hectares of land to private companies

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IMG 20220719 WA0001 Ondo farmers, lawmaker kick as govt allegedly ceed 50,000 hectares of land to private companies

IMG 20220719 WA0001 Ondo farmers, lawmaker kick as govt allegedly ceed 50,000 hectares of land to private companies

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Farmers in ldanre Community, Ondo state and the House of Assembly member,  Hon Festus Akingbaso, have kicked against the alleged displacement of thousands of farmers by the state government for private business owners.

Recall that the farmers in their hundreds had protested the plan by the state government to ceed over 50,000 hectares of their farmlands for private companies.

The protesters lamented that ” the state government has arrogantly given about 50,000 hectares of our land in the area to private business owners for 99 years.

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“This is unacceptable to us who are farmers in the community, they have destroyed  over 20,000 farmlands.

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Source: Vanguard Newspaper