Security operatives numbering about 100 on Tuesday morning took over Nimo community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State to stop a planned
The youths had gathered to register their displeasure over the activities of a few rich people in the community.
The protesters who spoke to journalists insisted that they duly received clearance and that the protest was against the sale of a large parcel of land in the community, known as Ana Ama. Chux Okonkwo, a Lagos-based legal practitioner and former chairman of Nimo Town Development Union, Lagos branch who participated in the protest accused some powerful leaders in the community of being responsible for the sales of communal lands but did not name them.
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