Sentences with phrase «by land grabbers»

Since 2000, an area of fertile ground roughly twice the size of the UK has been seized by land grabbers and consolidated into large farms, generally growing crops for export rather than the food needed by the poor.»

Speaking while inaugurating the Task Force, the State's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, said the administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is determined to apply the full weight of the law to permanently address the issue, adding that the havoc and unrest being caused by land grabbers was no longer acceptable.

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The State Government, through the Special Task Force on Land Grabbers set up by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode's administration, had on June 16, 2017 arraigned Lamina and others before the court over alleged forceful dispossession of residents from their legitimate rights to land ownersLand Grabbers set up by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode's administration, had on June 16, 2017 arraigned Lamina and others before the court over alleged forceful dispossession of residents from their legitimate rights to land ownersland ownership.

Kazeem also disclosed that the State House of Assembly was in the process of passing a law that would exclusively deal with the activities of land grabbers by prescribing appropriate stiff punishment for offenders.

A statement by Lt. Col OM Daudu, Acting Deputy Director, 81 Division Army Public Relations said, «The authorities of 81 Division Nigerian Army also wish to bring to the awareness of the general public the obnoxious activities of some so - called land grabbers who deliberately contract the services of impostors across the state to forcefully take over plots of land that do not belong to them.

Tribe after tribe was decimated by the US Cavalry and associated renegade land - grabbers, and those who survived were corralled on to barren reservations.

Three bodacious bovine (voiced by Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench and Jennifer Tilly) set out to save their Home On the Range from an evil land - grabber.

Jon Cassar)-- World Premiere Kiefer and Donald Sutherland share the screen in this brooding western about an embittered gunslinger who attempts to make amends with his estranged father whilst their community is besieged by ruthless land - grabbers.