By Oye Chukwujekwu
Asaba
Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education, Jude Sinebe, has advised persons who illegally encroached on government land at Delta State University, Anwai Campus, Asaba, to vacate the lands on or before two weeks.
Sinebe gave the directive in Asaba during the inspection of the Anwai Campus land illegally occupied by some persons.
The commissioner, who expressed dismay over the actions of the illegal occupants, said that it was very disheartening to see people occupy government land even to the extent of selling portion of it to others, and said that such act contravened the law.
He said that those who illegally occupied the land should come to the Ministry of Higher Education to show evidence and approval of their occupation of the land, even as he said that government would soon take action on properties illegally erected on the land within the next few weeks.
He said that the Delta State University, Anwai Campus, extend from Camp 74 up to the Police Station along Illah Road, describing the length as about five kilometres down to the River Niger which used to be the School’s demonstration land.
He expressed government’s concern on the Faculty of Management and Agricultural Science housed by the Campus for not doing well unlike it counterparts in Oleh and Abraka stating that people had encroached on the land that belong to the school which he said was a major factor for the accreditation of the Faculty by the Nigeria University Commission (NUC).
The Provost of the Delta State University, Anwai Campus, Prof. Samuel Asagba stated that all efforts made by the school in the time past to warned the illegal occupiers and retrieve the land had met with brick walls.
He added that the indigenes always chased them with machete and other dangerous weapons, adding that the school had to approach the Ministry to step in, even as he said that the land had a survey plan.
Prof. Asagba stressed that as an Agricultural Institution, the school needed large portion of land for experimental farms where they were expected to have all the machinery like tractors and bulldozers for farm demonstration.