1. It has come to the attention of the Anambra State Government that agents of two firms, namely, Next Agro Transformation Ltd and Hillside Estates Ltd, have been spreading false and misleading information about the ownership of the land in GRA, Nkwelle Ezunaka in Oyi Local Government Area. The agents claim that they are the rightful owners of this place where a modern residential area is being developed. They have even been selling plots of land in the area to unsuspecting members of the public.
2. The Anambra State Government wishes to inform the public that the area known as Nkwelle Ezunaka GRA has been given to Rotech Energy Services Ltd to develop into a modern estate with over 500 houses. The Memorandum of Understanding to build the estate was signed on July 5, 2019, at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia.
3. Rotech has already carried out the surveying, plotting and comprehensive planning of the site. It has also cleared it. The state government is impressed with the pace of work by Rotech Energy Services at the site.
4. It is, therefore, fraudulent, audacious and vexatious for agents of Next Agro Transformation Ltd and Hillside Estate Ltd, who are not known to the state government as stakeholders in the project, to claim in the mass media ownership of the huge expanse of land on which Nkwelle Ezunaka GRA is being built.
5. The public is hereby warned not to buy any piece of land from these two firms because they are trespassers and interlopers. The appropriate government and security agencies have been directed to make these firms and their agents feel the full weight of the law.
6. Let us repeat for the umpteenth time that the 1999 Constitution, as amended, vests in the State Governor power over every land in the state.
God bless Anambra State, the Light of the Nation.
