Over one thousand [1,000] residents of Suncity, a suburb of Buduburam in the Central region, have been evicted from their buildings over a land dispute.
The residents lament that they were given no adequate time to relocate from the area.
They were evicted from their houses by the litigant identified as SNBB under the supervision of a police task force.
The personal belongings of the affected persons were thrown out, and the entrances were locked with new padlocks.
The litigant who claims ownership of the land has won a court case against property owners of the area.
According to the litigant, the court has given him the right to demolish all the houses to be able to recover his land.
Some affected victims who shared their frustrations with Republic Press said they were not given prior notice before they were thrown out of their rooms.
“They are not land guards, but the way they did the operation is scary. You wake up early morning, and you see Police and Taskforce at your doorstep, evicting you. No one has informed us about the demolition, and this is not good.
They initially wrote on the walls giving us a warning, but we didn’t know it was that serious,” a resident told the paper.
Another said, “We were here this morning when the task force came and told us to move from the area. We don’t have anywhere to go, and I can’t go to my village because there is nothing there for me. We need the government to intervene.”
“We are tenants here, and we have never built a house, so if they tell us to move just today, it is not a good thing. If you are ejecting me in just two minutes and telling me to move my belongings out, it is not something that we should encourage.
“I have a three-week-old baby and I don’t know where to go. We want to appeal to the owner of the land to calm down and negotiate with us.”
The litigant declined to speak to the media about the development.
