Criminals Erected Ruga Signpost in Our Community, Says Community Leader

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National President of Akpa Community Development Association (ACDA) Dr. Fidelis Otebe, has condemned the erection of Ruga settlement signpost in his community in Otukpo, Benue State, stating that it’s an act of criminality even as he rejected the intention of federal government to establish grazing reserve in Akpa land.
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Otebe, who stated this on Sunday after consulting Akpa sons and daughters at home and the diaspora, said the people have no land to give as grazing reserve in whatever form to anybody, including Fulani herdsmen and federal Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Abuja.

He said the people are agrarian settlers and earned their living through cultivation of agricultural crops, stressing that the people have no land for grazing reserve and warned those with the idea to locate the grazing reserve in Akpa to stay clear from the area.

The president of the community said the people had given land to agricultural training institute in Otobi, Otukpo, multipurpose dam in Otobi, university of health sciences in Akwete which has recently been signed to take off; federal government college, federal government tourism centre for crafts, among others of which compensation were paid to the people.

He said those who brought the signpost to be erected in Akpa land were criminals and should stay clear from the area.
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Otebe said the people were behind the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, and his deputy, Benson Abounu, in the enactment of open prohibition and ranches establishment law in the state, adding that anyone who wants to acquire land should go through state government and leaders and elders of the community.

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