The owners of the property including Mr. Kalu from Abia’ North Justice and lkechukwu who brandished the authority papers issued to them by the Ministry of Lands, by the previous administration, explained that they did not acquire the lands illegally as being labeled by the state government and Old Boys Association of Government College Umuahia.
The owners of property including a series of assorted buildings, and lands for industries, said it was their genuine interest in developing the state that prompted them to come back home to invest.
They wondered why the administration of Dr Alex Otti who pretends to be luring investors to the state should demolish and seal up their multi-million naira investment on the pretense of revoking what the previous administration has done.
They described the action of the Labour Party administration in the state as inhuman, pointing out that the government ought to have negotiated with them since the lands were duly acquired and documents given to them by the previous administration.
They also described what has happened to them at home, as what has been happening in the West which made them come back home to invest.
Meanwhile, the occupants of the buildings, many of them lecturers and civil servants are now helpless and do not know what to do, and they described the exercise as inhuman.
Reacting to the development, a son of Umuana Ndume Mr Meregini described the action of the state government as impunity in the highest order, pointing out that the areas in question were not part of lands donated to Fisher the original owner of Government College by Umuana Community.
Mr Meregini explained that the Government College Old Boys could not prove that the areas belonged to them at the court and withdrew from a case instituted by them sensing that would lose as the community had all the documents related to the donation of the lands.
According to Mr Meregini, the Old Boys of Government College Umuahia now run from government to government to forcibly collect the lands belonging to the community in connive with someone from the community who is in Government with his illegal executive committee.
