— Two million cocoa trees to be destroyed
Addressing newsmen, the chairman of the Oluwa Forest Reserve Farmers, Abayomi Rotimi lsinleye, Secretary Odugbemi Omolewa and the Head of farmers, ljoba camp, lrewole Muse, said that they have been farming on the land for over 30 years. According to them ” They entered into the forest reserve to commence the process of grading and forceful taking over the forest reserve where about 10,000 farmers who are Ondo state government tenants, have cultivated over two million cocoa trees before the alleged sale of the land.
Temokun alleged that public officer holders” veiled under registered companies are the ones forming business alliances and buying up government forest reserve land under their control for their private business while using the instrumentality of their various public offices to protect this private interest arrangement.
Temokun said that the farmers have also approach the court asking the court for “A declaration that the 1st defendant’s purported sale to the 6th defendant of the land measuring 2000.482 hectares of the Government forest reserve land within Oluwa Forest Reserve , Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State and the issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy dated 23rd of July 2021 and registered as No.
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