Angry women from Enuagu, Umuinu &Umuopu, Ifite Umueri community in Anambra East Local Council yesterday went naked to protest an alleged encroachment on their ancestral land mapped for International Cargo & Passenger Airport, Umueri by agents of state govt & land speculators.
The protesting naked women numbering hunderds, blockaded the entrance to the airport, sealed it with sacred palm fronds to barricade entry point, made bonfires & vowed to occupy the place for the next one month until the state government remedied the situation.
Among complaints written on the placards,they said, three communities of Enuagu, Umuinu and Umuopu gave up 729.606 hectares of land to the state government during the administration of Dr Chris Ngige but the Government now under Chief Willie Obiano forcefully took another 1901 hectares, according to the women they said work will not be allowed to continue at the airport site unless another MOU is signed with the problems they outlined put into consideration and solution given.
