The Managing Director (MD) of the Cross River Basin Development Authority (CRBDA), Engr. Bassey Edet Mkposong, has disclosed that all illegal occupants of lands, including those belonging to the Federal Government, in any part of the state will be ejected soon.
Mkposong confirmed that the Federal Government was presently taking inventory of all its land assets and had begun to fence them to stop encroachment.
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Mkposong spoke with journalists in Calabar following complaints by residents of Ikot Enebong community who sent a Save Our Soul (SOS) letter to the Cross River State Commissioner for Environment, accusing him of deliberately excavating a 12-feet pathway to form artificial erosion gully calculated to cause heavy flooding and destruction of valuable property, as well as put their lives in grave danger.
The MD said he used the excavator to create “gap” to ensure that those who were encroaching into Federal Government lands would realise that they were occupying the lands illegally.
He further said, “I won’t cede a square metre of the land to anybody because the Federal Government didn’t send me to do that. I have written to the appropriate government authority and it is in the process of coming to eject them. So, we’re just looking at each other, none of them have any claims and they’ll lose.
“Right now, the Federal Government is taking inventory of all its lands in the whole of the federation and fencing them. Thereafter, illegal occupants will be ejected.”
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