Residents vow to resist FG’s plan to demolish community for power project

Umuahia—LEKWESI Community in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State has threatened to resist alleged plans to demolish the community for construction of an electricity transmission line by the Federal Government unless they are paid adequate compensation.

According to them,  executing the electricity project would warrant relocation of the entire community, noting that they would lose crops, farmlands, economic trees and residential houses.

Lekwesi, an agrarian community, expressed worry that contractors handling the project were eager to go ahead with the construction of a 330 KVA High Tension Electricity Transmission Line from Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom State to Ugwaji in Enugu State, when the community has not been compensated to enable them relocate to a new settlement.


Lawyer to the community, Mr. Victor Mbanaso, in a petition on behalf of the community addressed to the Attorney-General of the Federation, said the community  was worried  that the Federal Government wants to carry on with the execution of the project which would necessitate the relocation of the residents and destruction of their economic base without giving adequate consideration to their plight.