Battle for C’River’s water board land

By  Aniekan Aniekan, Calabar

Governor Bassey Otu’s move to reclaim Water Board land has triggered a confrontation with powerful figures, exposing fault lines in Cross River’s politics of land, patronage and control.

This is no longer about hectares. It is about who runs Cross River: the government elected to protect public assets, or the “big men” who have long treated them as private…