“They made this SOS message through us after they held a peaceful protest on the land and beseeched the governor to come to their aid.”
HURIWA also called on the IGP to order the Commissioner of Police, Enugu Police Command to stop the misuse of its operatives to conspire with the paramount ruler to disposes the families of their ancestral lands.
It noted that their women had been issued an ultimatum to prematurely harvest and uproot their crops and plants on the said land as the expropriators intend to level the said piece of land on Monday, 25 May 2020, stressing that no government investment and developmental projects were sited in the community.
Meanwhile, the non-governmental organization also urged the IGP that the Delta State Police on Tuesday arbitrarily and illegally arrested four journalists, including members of the Warri Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Delta State.
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