Ebonyi Cargo Airport: Land owners sue Govt to court

Owners of farm lands at Umuezeoka, Umuoghara, and Okaleru communities in Ezza north local government of Ebonyi state, the proposed site of the state’s International cargo airport took the state government to court for taking over their land.

They particularly mentioned the Attorney General of the state and the state House of Assembly as their respondents in a suit filed at the Federal High court Abakaliki, while mr Nwantiti Eze, Mr Oken Stephen, and four others where the applicants.

 Meanwhile counsel to the plaintiffs, requested on behalf of his clients that the “current and persistent destructions, demolitions, and uprooting of dwelling houses, farmlands” and others without palliatives or compensation and in a manner inconsistent with the constitutional provisions went ultra vires to the law.

The plaintiffs equally asked for a compensation of N2 billion against the respondents and their principals as damages for the untold hardship which the actions of the defendants and their principals have allegedly caused them.

“The sum of N2 billion against the respondents as damages for the untold hardships, starvation, sufferings, and death perpetrated against the applicants and their community members by the insidious, inhuman, and obnoxious conducts of the respondents and their principal, agents, privies, and proxies”, they prayed.

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