The residents of Alagbado Community in Ilorin Kwara state may be rendered homeless soon as the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has ordered the residents to vacate the land
NAF Coordinator, for 303 Medium Airlift Group (MAG), Mr Adeniyi Mathew told newsmen in Ilorin on Thursday that the residents of the community intruded upon the land which was allocated to the Air Force in 1987.
While presenting the land chart to newsmen on Thursday 4ft May, Adeniyi, said that 20 acres out of a total of 220 acres of the land belonging to NAF was encroached upon by the resident of the community.
Adeniyi, told newsmen in Ilorin that he was part of the delegation that visited Alagbado in 2010 to inform the community that the land belonged to NAF.
According to Adeniyi the people of the community started encroaching on the land since 2008 and in 2010, I was part of the NAF team that went to the community to inform them of the encroachment.
In another development, leader of Alagbado community, Alhaji Abdulrahim Bakare, said he was not aware that the land belonged to the Nigerian Air Force.
Alhaji Bakare while addressing newsmen said “I was born in this community and we have had four generations before I became the Mogaji (village head), I was not aware that the land belongs to NAF.
Inside Source gathered that some NAF officials have started demolishing houses and destroying property in the community.
