Sentences with phrase «of land grabbers»

«The general public is please requested to be wary of the fact that the nefarious activities of land grabbers deliberately working with impostors in military uniform to defraud and dispossess unsuspecting land owners of their lands are now proliferated.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Also speaking, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), a human rights lawyer, commended the state government on the passage of the law on land grabbers, saying it would alleviate the sufferings of land owners.

Their inclusion criteria are unclear, but this skews the data, turning the UK from a middle - ranking land - grabber to the biggest of them all, for instance.

We urgently need to know more about the scale of this capture, not least because some of the land - grabbers» favoured crops are among the thirstiest, such as sugar and rice.

And land grabbers are following his advice, buying up African farm and pasture land because, well, the world is going to run out of food, isn't it?

A herd of cows take action to save their farm from falling into the hands of an evil land grabber in the movie Home on the Range.

We're on a bespoke off - road course carved out of NOLA Motorsports Park's wooded land to sample the new Grabber A / Tx all - terrain tires.

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.»

(Washington, DC: World Bank, January 2011); George C. Schoneveld, The Anatomy of Large - scale Farmland Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Working Paper 85 (Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research, 2011); Fred Pearce, The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth (Boston: Beacon Press, 2012); U.N. World Food Programme, «Countries,» at www.wfp.org/countries, viewed 17 June 2012.

The Green Belt Movement has for years been advocating to save riparian, watershed areas and green open spaces from land grabbers in Nairobi and many other parts of the country.

And because some of the countries where land is being acquired do not have enough land to adequately feed their own people, the stage is being set for future conflicts between the so - called land grabbers and hungry local people.

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