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Residents of Umuoyima Autonomous Community in Owerri Municipal Council of Imo State have protested disapproval of the State Government?s move to take over their ancestral land situated at Wetheral Road.
The peaceful demonstration turned chaotic when Owerri Capital Development Authority (OCDA) officials arrived with security operatives, who shot sporadically, chasing the protesters away.
Eyewitnesses said the operatives demolished shops, shades and stalls, leaving traders with no opportunity to retrieve their goods.
Many protesters sustained injuries in the ensuing chaos.
The chairman, Elders Council, Elder Godwin Offurum, insisted that the land belongs to them, not the government.
?We gathered here today (Wednesday) because we received reports that the Owerri Capital Development Authority (OCDA) planned to storm the area.?
?We will not stand idly by while our ancestral land is taken from us,? Offurum stated. (The Nation)
