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Anambra mapOver 4,000 traders and sand workers displaced by the demolition exercise carried out by the Anambra State government through the Onitsha South Local Government Area authorities have accused the local government of reallocating their lands to the highest bidders.
The victims, including sand miners, traders, shop owners and occupants, whose structures at Ndende community, situated along Niger Street, Fegge in Onitsha, were earlier demolished in March, also called on the Anambra State Police Commissioner, CP Nnaghe Itam, and the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Zone 13, Ukpo, ASP Victor Agbaulor, to intervene in the situation to avert the possible breakdown of law and order that may result from further activities of government officials on the said land.
The displaced angry traders and sand workers told South-East PUNCH that since they were displaced by the state government in March through the demolition of their shops, and houses and destruction of sand beaches, the Onitsha South Local Government authorities have been allocating the spaces to people who paid them and they have turned the remaining space to market place and car park where they collect money daily from the users.
South-East PUNCH gathered that no fewer than 1,600 shops and structures were destroyed at Ndende land, along Niger Street, in March, thereby displacing over 4,000 occupants. Punch
