Nigerian Court Stops Ondo Government From Forcefully Evicting Over 10,000 Farmers From Forest Reserve
Ondo State High Court, Ore Judicial division, sitting at Ondo, coram Hon. Justice Ademola Adegoroye
Ondo State High Court, Ore Judicial division, sitting at Ondo, coram Hon. Justice Ademola Adegoroye
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned for judgment in the two
The prosecution counsel begged for adjournment again for the third time on health ground. Arraignment stalled again, since 2021!
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The farmers attorney established that “since 2019, each farmer has been made to pay certain sum ranging from N3000 to N5000 per farmer for registration as farmers in the forest reserve and this is not just for the purpose of security in the forest but also for huge income generation to the government.
“Surprisedly today, April 18, 2023, hundreds of armed men of Amotekun Corps, armed Soldiers of the Nigerian Army and men of Ooduaa Peoples’ Congress (OPC) had invaded theirs camps and shot sporadically everywhere to scare the farmers away for the graders to have their way and the grading of Our Clients’ cocoa crops, of over two decades.
Farmers in their thousands who engage mainly in cocoa farming in Oluwa Forest Reserve in
“Today, the 18th of April 2023, hundreds of armed men of Amotekun Corps, armed soldiers of the Nigerian Army and men of Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) had invaded their camps and shot sporadically everywhere to scare the farmers away, for the graders to have their way and the grading of our clients’ cocoa crops, of over two decades, thousands of cocoa trees, have now commenced fully, as the farmers wail in agony without protection or solace.
Upon obtaining this afternoon the Certified True Copy of the judgment of the Ondo State
As we wait for a positive response from the Ondo State government on the court
By motion on notice filed on the 28th of October 2022, Mr Oluwasegun Oluwarotimi sued the ONDO STATE GOVERNMENT, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND COMMISSIONER FOR JUSTICE ONDO STATE, the ONDO STATE SECURITY NETWORK AGENCY (codenamed “Amotekun Corps”) and the COMMANDANT ONDO STATE SECURITY NETWORK AGENCY