Landowners are protesting against the alleged seizure of agricultural land by the Kano government

Landowners from nine villages in three local government areas of Kano State have called on the Ministry of Lands and Lands to toe the line of justice and fairness by releasing their seized agricultural lands.

The villages include Tamburawa, Magami Matage, Tudun Bayero, Hausawa, Tabki, Kumbotso, Tsamawa and Kalinja, all sharing the same boundaries in the three local government areas.

The aggrieved landowners belonging to the Farmers Development Forum on the AKK project, stated that their lands were seized by the authorities without adequate compensation, for which they have a case before the state High Court.

The court had earlier heard the case and directed both the landowners and the state government to maintain the status quo.

However, the group’s secretary, Mukhtar Hussain, who spoke to the Blueprint newspaper, expressed shock when they saw heavily armed security personnel escorting trucks to crush farmland mid-last week in one of the affected plots in Tamburawa village.

He told this correspondent that they had no option but to storm the ministry on Friday to demand an explanation for the violation of the court’s instruction to maintain the status quo.