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       Enugu Community Denies Reported Suicide Over Alleged Forceful La
       nd Acquisition 
       By: sparrow Date: August 2, 2018, 6:50 pm
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       Residents of Abor community, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu
       State, Thursday, dismissed media report that some of them were
       planning to commit suicide following the intention of the state
       government to acquire their ancestral land.
       They said there was no iota of truth in the publication.
       Addressing journalists at the residence of the oldest man in the
       community, Ichie Idenwagu Charles, the chairman of Amaezike
       village, Ichie Offo Uchenna said the alleged suicide attempt was
       “a creation of mischief makers and blackmailers”.
       Accompanied by other elders of the community and youth leaders,
       Uchenna said contrary to claims by the Ngwuagu village, the said
       land was a subject of litigation before an Enugu High Court
       prior to the inception of the present administration, adding
       that their rival neigbouring village had been trespassing on the
       property against the order of the court.
       The community leader said the Enugu State Government was
       intervening towards an amicable settlement of the land dispute
       involving the two villages.
       While giving insight into the controversial land, he said, “My
       community is not having any issue with the Enugu State
       Government and nobody is threatening to commit suicide anywhere,
       contrary to the media report. The land in question belongs to
       Ngwuagu and Amaezike villages. The land has been a subject of
       dispute in court since 2006.
       “We beckoned on the State Government to mediate and assist us as
       father to settle the problem we are having over the land. Our
       neighbouring village, who are now laying false accusation
       aganist the state govermnent, went there, parcelled the land,
       cancelled our previous perimeter survey. They went there started
       building house and selling the property to individuals,
       neglecting court order. The court told us to farm and not to
       build houses.
       “But they disobeyed the court and even threatened to kill any
       one of us from Amaezike that visits the land. They sold the
       land, they are not living there as they falsely alleged.
       “So, that is why we begged the State Government to come and
       settle this case between brothers, so that everybody will live
       in peace and unity in Abor.”
       On suicide claims, Uchenna emphasized that, “There is no
       committing of suicide anywhere, they are just using it to
       blackmail the State Government and attract cheap popularity.
       “I repeat, nobody is committing suicide, our ancestral home is
       in Abor, Udi Local government area, that land in question is a
       grass land that belongs to two of us.
       “Whoever is laying that accusation against the Government has to
       be questioned because what they are doing is to deliberately
       castigate the government of the people.”
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