Female herbalist appeals for justice #crsuperhighway

She is an herbalist, her crops(pharmacy) were destroyed early this year without notice or compensation for #CRSuperhighway

She is one of almost a million rendered landless by the January 22nd revocation order of the Cross River State Govt. If you own lands in Akpabuyo, Bakassi, Ikom, Bekwarra, Obubra, and other LGs stretching to the boundary of Benue State. Aside from the mass revocation, before the bulldozers were halted by the FG demand for an EIA many lost crops and sole source of income and feeding to bulldozers. Not one has been compensated in these harsh times.

The herbalist further said. I cannot become a thief.

No one is against any developmental project of the state but it is only fair people are properly consulted, national standards are adhered to (where in Nigeria is 400m width designated for roads and further 10km offset on either side?) and where due, compensated to ensure development projects actually achieve the aim of development and not heartbreak and poverty.

Please visit, and write to your state house representatives, Local Govt Chairman, councilors and and Federal Legislators to find out if you still own the lands, farms and properties you think you currently own. Ask them to call a town hall meeting to clear the air. Take a copy of the revocation notice and map with you. This is not the first road that has been built in Cross River State and it wont be the last.
Lets do things properly.

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