Violent Land Disputes in Igbo land by Elechi Amadi the Concubine, their education and Traditional resolutions
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This paper investigated violent land disputes in Igbo land by Elechi Amadi the concubine; their education and traditional resolutions. Majority of families in Igbo land have family lands, they also, share communal lands and make use of resources that come from those lands. Whatever threaten Igbo on their land threaten their economic social, moral and religious lives. In the bible and in Igbo land, anything that threatens human existence in Ala land such as Flu, volcanic eruption, land slide and drought could be regarded as sin caused by humans inhabiting in (Ala) land in Igbo land. Violent conflicts have caused devastations, loss of human lives at various quarters in Igbo land. Myriads of communal conflicts over lands for 20 decades ago in Igbo land have constrained development in some communities and villages in Igbo land. It has thus retarded infrastructural developments planned by different successive government in Igbo land. Numerous land conflicts evidenced in some communities in Igbo land have in no small measure devastated manufacturers of industrial products situating in Igbo land thus, causing relocation of industries to other states in Nigeria and its environs. Igbo man is meant to inhabit graze or forage on lands inherited on bought by his own money but frowns at trespasses on his land to any level of dispute. Mediations through education, law enforcement and traditional dispute resolutions are used to restore some level of peace on land dispute in Igbo land.
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