Yesterday on ITV news I some people were protesting at the government house. They were protesting the reclaiming of Okhomu Oil land which they had encroach upon. Some of them were falling to the ground and rolling on from one point to the other. They were addressed by the deputy Chief of Staff who assured them that the government will look into it.
The land in dispute was a part of the Okhomu forest reserve which was giving to the Okhomu oil company by HRM Oba Akenzua 11 of blessed memory to plant palm oil trees. However, the Yoruba cocoa farmers entered the land from the real adjoing Ondo State and started planting Cocoa and even building permanent homes and developing villages with layouts. As usual they took the hospitality of the Benins for granted. A close look at the way they had settled the area in the future the Benins would have had to deal with another Gelegele.
The warning to Okhumu Oil was that if they do not have need for the lands allocated to them they should return it to the original owners. Those farmers can protest from Benin to Abuja all they want. My advice to them is that they should go and look for alternative area to farm in.