Further hearing
at the House of Reps on the allegation of land grabbing instituted by Atani people of
Anambra state against the Nigeria Police has been adjourned to 13th
February, 2018.
The Anambra community,
headquarters of Ogbaru Local Government Area led by its traditional ruler HRH
Igwe Azuka Ngoddy had petitioned the House of Representative to check what they
called “unwarranted expansion and encroachment on community land by Nigeria
Police beyond the portion allocated to them.
According to
those who attended the hearing yesterday, when the matter came up, the Inspector
General of Police was represented by an Assistant Commissioner of Police with a
team of lawyers while Igwe Ngoddy led some of his Chiefs to the hallowed
chambers.
A cross section of Atani Chiefs and stakeholders during the hearing yesterday
During the
hearing, the Nigerian Police had relied and tendered a survey plan of the said
landed property which was discountenanced and dismissed by the committee for not being duly signed and stamped.
The
Committee was also said to have queried the fact that the survey plan presented
by the Police neither had a registration number of the surveyor who prepared it
nor beacon numbers and a GPRS of the survey plan.
According to
our source, the Committee then directed the Police to stop further development
of the said land and produce the surveyor at the next hearing or risk the
arrest of the DPO of the Divisional headquarters of Nigeria Police at Atani.
Recall that
the Nigeria Police and the people of Atani had been in a bitter face-off for
some time now over the land the community allocated to it freely.
While the
people are alleging that the Nigeria Police is on a wild encroachment and expansion
spree, the Police is saying there is nothing like that.
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