Airport: Abia Govt addresses land owners’ concerns over compensations

Abia State authorities has addressed past week’s protestation by immoderate onshore owners successful the airdrome city, Nsulu, implicit the non-payment of compensations.

The villagers had during the protestation connected Tuesday, February 17, 2026, threatened to reclaim portion of the 1,025 hectares of lands successful Nsulu, Isiala Ngwa North LGA, which the Abia State authorities had acquired from them, if compensations were not paid successful full.

In a connection connected Tuesday, the authorities authorities said that outgo of compensation to villagers whose lands were extracurricular the airdrome runway commenced connected February 23, 2026.

Commissioner for Lands, Chaka Chukwumerije, who made the Abia State government’s presumption known, said that farmers and different villagers whose lands sat connected the airdrome runway had antecedently received afloat outgo of compensation.

He listed the villages arsenic Umuala, Umuomainta, Umuezeukwu, Umuode, Umuosu and Ubaha.

The commissioner said a municipality hallway gathering was held with the assemblage members connected February 18, 2026, wherever they were informed astir the last compensation plans.

Chukwumerije said those extracurricular the runway were fixed clip to spell done the published database of the compensation beneficiaries and marque claims.

The Abia State commissioner for lands reassured the affected villagers that their compensation would beryllium paid successful full, promising that immoderate reported corr...