Delta Govt warns against harassment of business owners, property developers

 Delta State Government, Monday warned community leaders and youths to stop harassing business owners and property developers in the State, saying it has resolved to enforce the ‘anti-deve’ law which proscribed illegal and forceful entry into development sites across the state.

The State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu who gave the warning during a press conference in Asaba, warned violators of the State Public and Private Properties Protection Law signed into law by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in 2018.

Reacting to concerns that despite the enactment of the law, some community leaders and youths were still flouting the law by harassing business owners and property developers in the state, Aniagwu disclosed that Governor Okowa had received some alarming reports from both public and private developers on the development.

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Calling on the people to report such harassment to law enforcement agencies who are empowered by law to prosecute the offenders, he said; “you will recall that two years ago, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa assented to a piece of legislation outlawing what we used to call “deve”.

“We are making it very clear that that law is still in force because we are getting reports that some persons are still harassing some individuals and that if anybody harasses you because you want to develop your plot of land or your property.