They vowed to stop further work on their land.
The aggrieved youths chanted songs, displaying placards with various inscriptions to express their discrepancies.
Odu said: “We cannot accept what is going on in our land. This is the only area we have as settlement areas of six communities. FUTO had acquired it before, about 38 years ago, without compensation.
The over 1,000 hectares of land were later excised by the Federal Government. We do not know who are these unknown people who are dropping the name of the FUTO authorities and Imo State Government, claiming they acquired the lands from them. We shall resist it to the last.”
The outgoing FUTO Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof. Francis Eze, told The Guardian the issue would be settled before his exit from the office next month. He sued for peace.
