Election rush: Traffic along Lagos-Enugu Expressway, Awka... on Friday
Displaced
landowners in Enugu State have threatened to storm the Enugu
International Airport and seize materials meant for the conduct of the
Anambra State governorship election on Saturday (today).
They said they resolved to take the
action because the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria failed to pay
them compensation for acquiring their land.
The landowners are operating on the platform of Airport Hillview and Layout Landlords Association, Enugu State.
A statement by the publicity secretary
of the group, Mr. Emmanuel Ivuanyi, on Thursday, faulted FAAN for not
paying compensations to affected landowners.
Mostly indigenes of Anambra State, the
landowners made available a notice of the threats to our correspondents
in Enugu and Awka, on Thursday.
According to them, they were promised
compensation when the land was acquired in 2009 by the Federal
Government for the expansion and remodelling of the airport to
international status.
They, however, said that since then, they had yet to receive any form of compensation from FAAN.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that 11 of the landowners who started the fight for compensation had died.
One of the landowners, Mr. Emmanuel
Chukwurah, said they would, in their thousands, besiege the airport very
early today (Saturday) and ensure that sensitive materials for the
Anambra governorship election do not leave the airport.
“We are prepared to die for this, so no amount of security confrontation will hinder our action,” said Chukwurah.”
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