The Edo State Tipper Drivers Association has handed down a seven-day ultimatum to the Chief Priest of Okhuoromi Community, Ovbokhan lgbinovia, to return their landed properties.
Chairman of the Association, Comrade Austin Uhunmwagho, while briefing Newsmen at the association’s head office in Benin City, called on the State Government, Oba of Benin Kingdom and other stakeholders to prevail on Igbinovia to return the properties bought by their members and other individuals.
Comrade Uhunmwagho stated that failure by the Ohen to comply with the call will compel the Association to embark on a strike action.
“They destroyed our
buildings, buildings that were up to roofing level, all went down the drain, just Iike that. We are not the only victims of this whole evil act you can see some other persons here” Comrade Uhunmwagho lamented.
While emphasizing the need for prompt intervention by concerned authorities, Uhunmwagho said the Association is in receipt of over 50 petitions with evidence of houses that have been demolished.
He noted that the action of the community chief priest was worse than that of the disbanded Community Development Association(CDA), whose activities were retrogressing development in Benin kingdom.
The Ohen, Chief Priest of Okhoruomi, Ovbokhan Igbinovia, accused the Association’s Chairman of poke-nosing into an affairs of the community and that thesaid Comrade Uhunmwangho and his members did not buy any landed property from authorities of the community.
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