Ebonyi Airport: Community protests planned demolition of over 3000 houses
ate government to demolish over 3000 houses belonging to people of the community without compensation.
But the people of Aguogboriga trooped out enmass and protested the extension of the project site to their community, accusing somethem build hotels and other facilities in the area. The protesters carried their household properties to the site to protest the acquisition of their lands. They appealed to the state government to take a vast land in Agu Umuoghara which they said was larger than the whole project site for the construction of the airport.and raised the alarm that hunger was imminent in the community, even as they lamented that no records of the crops and land owners were taken before the bulldozers started clearing the lands in the community.
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