{"id":8587,"date":"2018-04-16T03:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/fg-sues-for-peace-over-futo-communities-face-off\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T03:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:25:18","slug":"fg-sues-for-peace-over-futo-communities-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/fg-sues-for-peace-over-futo-communities-face-off\/","title":{"rendered":"FG sues for peace over FUTO, communities\u2019 face off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_104765\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-1062x598.jpg?resize=1062%2C598&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-600x338.jpg 600w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104765 lazyload\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-1062x598.jpg?resize=1062%2C598&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104765 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-600x338.jpg 600w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO: www.nigeriaschool.com.ng<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Determined to ensure that the over 35- year- old land dispute between the authorities of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) and communities hosting the institution, comes to an end, the Federal Government has pledged to resolve the ongoing impasse without further delay. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting between the parties were midwived by the Minister of State for Works, Power and <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">Housing<\/a>, Suleiman Hassan, a Surveyor, who also said he was satisfied by the maturity and willingness of the parties to end the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman, Council of Traditional Rulers in Owerri West Local Council, \u00a0Eze Maurison Eke led other monarchs and leaders of the eight host communities (Ihiagwa, Eziobodo, Obinze, Avu, Okolochi, Ogbeke, Emeabiam and Needed) to the meeting. Others present include Attorney to host communities, Chief Sam Anokam, and a prominent son in Ihiagwa, Emeka Udopkoro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hassan, regretted that the crisis had lingered for years, \u00a0after the land measuring about 4,580 hectares were acquired by the FUTO management in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Federal Government was worried by the development and determined to ensure it\u2019s lasting solution. He urged the communities, which has 30 villages not to escalate the dispute to uncontrollable situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He advised the monarchs to call their subjects to order, and ensure that peace prevailed.\u00a0\u201cThe Federal Government is aware of the land dispute and it is determined to bring lasting solution of peace to the parties. <\/p>\n<p>We are going to meet the management of the FUTO. The Federal Government is grateful for the donation of land to the University by you, the host communities,  \u201cHassan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anokam and a leader in the community, Chris Ahumibe, a lawyer, accused the institution of encroaching into their ancestral settlement\/habitaion areas, outside the original compensated areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The duo said from available records at their disposal, \u00a0only about 1,430 hectares of land there, \u00a0were compensated for leaving behind balance of 3,120 uncompensated. <\/p>\n<p>They also queried the need for the institution to acquire such large expanse of land, causing the communities\u2019 young and old ones lacking land for building private homes, stressing that there were undeveloped lands controlled by the FUTO, wasting.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/fg-sues-for-peace-over-futo-communities-face-off\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTO: www.nigeriaschool.com.ng Determined to ensure that the over 35- year- old land dispute between the authorities &hellip; <a title=\"FG sues for peace over FUTO, communities\u2019 face off\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/fg-sues-for-peace-over-futo-communities-face-off\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FG sues for peace over FUTO, communities\u2019 face off<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1399,12908,543,127,41,10234,1397],"class_list":["post-8587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-development","tag-home","tag-home-buying-guide","tag-homes","tag-property","tag-settlement","tag-undeveloped"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/federal-university-of-technology-owerri-futo-1-1062x598.jpg?fit=1062%2C598&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}