Land owners from nine villages of three local government areas of Kano state have called on the Ministry of Lands and Survey to toe the line of justice and fairness by releasing their seized farmlands.
The villages include Tamburawa, Magami Matage, Tudun Bayero, Hausawa, Tabki, Kumbotso, Tsamawa and Kalinja all sharing the same boarders in the three local government areas.
The aggrieved land owners belonging to the Farmers Development Forum on AKK Project, stated that their lands were seized by the authorities without proper compensation for which they have a case before the state High Court.
The court had earlier listened to the case and ordered both the land owners and the state government to maintain status quo.
However, the secretary of the group, Mukhtar Hussain, who spoke to Blueprint newspaper, expressed astonishment when they saw heavily armed security personnel escorting trucks to crush the farmlands mid last week at one of the affected land at Tamburawa village.
He told this correspondent that they had no option but to storm the ministry on Friday to seek explanation over the violation of the court’s instruction to maintain status quo.
