As part of ongoing effort to keep peace in the polity, the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition has waded into the land dispute between the Obeagu and Amechi-Uwani Awkunanaw communities, and the developers of Private Estates International West Africa limited (PEIWA) in Enugu South local council of the state.
Chaired by Mike Etaba, the committee, at its proceeding last Friday, assured the warring groups that justice would be served on the matter.
Etaba directed a legal representative of the committee to ascertain if there is any subsisting judicial pronouncement on the issue.
The lawmaker, on the heels of the claim by the rulers, kindred families of Amechi Uwani and Obeagu Awkunanaw of Enugu South, accused the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Akinbayo Olasoji, of Enugu State Police Command, of complicity in the alleged attempt to grab the disputed Enugu Centenary City land in breach of provisions of laid down laws.
The aggrieved community leaders also accused SP Chidiebere Ijeoma and Uche Anya, of the Enugu Capital Territory, of being part of the alleged infraction.
They urged the committee to ensure urgent actions against the alleged excesses of the police officers, who, they claimed, provided the land grabbers with police cover to ceaselessly harass, intimidate and unjustifiably hound their members to prison on trumped up charges.
