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Kau inhabitants, unique proprietors of a landed belongings donated to the Nigeria Police has alleged that the Nasarawa State chapter of Police Officers Wife Association (POWA) outrageously neglected an order of Nasarawa State High Court at the landed belongings donated to the Nigeria police through the inhabitants. The residents had approached the courtroom docket to prevent the continuing development of stores through POWA, as they stated the land is getting used for every other motive aside from the motive it changed into donated for. The courtroom docket had at the twenty-second July 2021 granted an order of intervening time injunction filed through the community towards the POWA, Nasarawa State; Karu nearby authorities’ area, Nasarawa State; the Nasarawa State governor, Abdullahi Sule; and the Nasarawa State Police Command; different defendants and the Seriki of Panda, Mr Danjuma Yestin. The inhabitants additionally petitioned the inspector general of police, Usman Baba Alkali, to call the POWA, Nasarawa State chapter to order, and compel the affiliation to obey the courtroom docket order at the stated belongings. According to the petition, the land measuring 4142.03m2 was donated to the police, and the police in collaboration with a non-public company had concluded plans to set up a manufacturing unit for the schooling of police at the manufacturing of textiles and making of clothes at the land. The inhabitants members, however, expressed surprise that POWA, Nasarawa State chapter trespassed at the land, constructed stores, and is already promoting the stores no matter an intervening time injunction of the courtroom docket to prevent the constructing of the stores. Counsel to the community, Adams Ochuagu of Seashores Solicitors, in a petition dated third September, addressed to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba Alkali, cited that a spouse of a former AIG had taken over the land in her potential as POWA chairperson in Nasarawa State, whilst her husband, Adebola Longe was the commissioner of police withinside the state. “You will remember sir that the indigenes of the community in Kau, Nasarawa State donated the land measuring approximately 4142.03m2 to the Nigerian Police for a selected motive. It can also be of hobby to you that the Nigerian Police in partnership with Compel Global Industries (an integrated enterprise in Nigeria) has concluded plans to apply the parcel of land for the manufacturing and schooling of cops withinside the manufacturing of textiles and making of clothes wherein places of work of the Nigerian Police and teeming youths could be gainfully employed. It is likewise instructive to understand that the enterprise has compensated people and cleared the stated land for the development of the undertaking to begin. “It is likewise pertinent to tell your accurate office that our customers have been at a loss and taken aback to discover that the spouse of the instantaneously beyond commissioner of police, Nasarawa State, below the guise of Police Officers Wife Association (POWA) Nasarawa Chapter has trespassed into the land, commenced partitioning the stated land, promoting off identical as stores to the unsuspecting public whilst our customers have been ready that the manufacturing unit could quickly start to begin growing the challenge,” Ochuagu stated. According to the petition, no matter an intervening time order from the Nasarawa State High Court to prevent the constructing of stores, the challenge being embarked upon on behalf of POWA had persisted in earnest.