Land homeowners from 9 villages of three native authorities areas of Kano state have referred to as on the Ministry of Lands and Survey to toe the road of justice and equity by releasing their seized farmlands.
The villages embrace Tamburawa, Magami Matage, Tudun Bayero, Hausawa, Tabki, Kumbotso, Tsamawa and Kalinja all sharing the identical boarders within the three native authorities areas.
The aggrieved land homeowners belonging to the Farmers Growth Discussion board on AKK Venture, said that their lands had been seized by the authorities with out correct compensation for which they’ve a case earlier than the state Excessive Court docket.
The courtroom had earlier listened to the case and ordered each the land homeowners and the state authorities to take care of established order.
Nonetheless, the secretary of the group, Mukhtar Hussain, who spoke to Blueprint newspaper, expressed astonishment once they noticed closely armed safety personnel escorting vehicles to crush the farmlands mid final week at one of many affected land at Tamburawa village.
He informed this correspondent that they’d no choice however to storm the ministry on Friday to hunt clarification over the violation of the courtroom’s instruction to take care of established order.