A businessman in Ajassor community of Etung local government area of Cross River State, Mark Prince, who was accused by a former official of the state Oscar
“Ofuka whose tenure as special adviser to former governor Ben Ayade had elapsed, is doing everything humanly possible to usurp the cocoa plots owned by my late father.”
While claiming to be the authentic owner of the land, Mark Prince said, “I have documents showing a letter which my father wrote to Cross River State Ministry of Agriculture alerting them that he possessed that land, and the ministry approved the letter and withdrew their members of staff, after the ministry accepted to hand over the disputed land to my late father in 1976.
“Let me bring to your notice that all former cocoa allocation chairmen who had served in that capacity none had included that portion in any of the allocations, until when Ofuka came on board and began to make trouble to the extent that we dragged each other to the state House of Assembly.” He said their appearance before a five-man committee in the 8th House of Assembly headed by Hon. Stephen Ukpukpen resulted to a “resolution that the property belonged to my late father and not the state government. Ofuka thereafter went to the immediate past governor Ben Ayade who decided to set up a five-man committee.
“The committee came up with a resolution that the portion of land in contention was my father’s property with warning that no allocation should be made henceforth on the land in question.
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