Mamu River Forest Reserve: Ozu Village Ndiukwuenu Community Leader Debunks Land Racketeering Claims By Protesters

A community leader in Ozu village in Ndiukwuenu, Orumba North Local Government Area, Chief Chukwudi Nweke, has countered the claims by some group of protesters recently at the Government House Awka, that their farm lands in “Mamu River Forest Reserve” are being sold out, and their crops and economic trees on the lands destroyed by some individuals in Ozu village, in collaboration with the Anambra State Commissioner for Lands, Professor Offornze Amucheazi.

Chief Nweke, who said that he is the current authentic Chairman of Ozu village, explained that the lands being sold at ”Mamu River Forest Reserve”, are the individuals’ plots which they got as their own share from the compensatory plots given to the village by Anambra State government, which all the villagers are entitled to share from, saying that the protesters are made-up of people who mean no good for the community.

 

He further told ABS that the compensatory plots given to the village and its sharing was duly announced to the villagers severally, and wondered why some group of persons will later gang up and be causing problem in the community.

Chief Nweke disclosed that part of the compensatory plots is still remaining for members of the village who are yet to get their own share, calling on such persons to come forward and take their own plots; instead of fomenting trouble and dragging the name of the village to the mud.