By JIMITOTA ONOYUME

PORT HARCOURT—Ogoni Solidarity Front, OSF, a civil society group in Rivers State, has vowed to resist move by the state government to acquire parts of Ogoni land for its banana plantation.

The group, during a protest march, weekend, in Port Harcourt, alongside Social Action, another civil rights group, said the move by the state government would displace about 30,000 families in the affected communities.

Mr. Celestine Akpbari, who spoke to newsmen during the protest, described the plan by the state government to acquire their land for its farm project as an infringement on the rights of the affected land owners.

He said: “Ogoni Solidarity Forum, Social Action and land owners, urge the Ministry of Agriculture and Rivers State Government to urgently cease all ongoing survey, plant destruction, intrusions into private farmlands as well as the impending seizure of the said farmland in Tai and Khana Local Government Areas of the state.