Following Gov Ambode's implementation of the land grabbing law in Lagos,
indigenes of Oyo state are currently clamouring for a replication to prohibit land
grabbers in the state.
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| Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode(2nd right) the Property. |
Some indigenes of Oyo state have called on oyo state Government to enact law that will prohibit land grabbing in the state.
They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews in Ibadan on
Wednesday that their were many cases of land grabbing was in the state.
NAN recalls that the Lagos State government recently enacted a legislation to
check land grabbing and associated criminal tendencies in the state.
Mr Bashiru Akanmu , a farmer, told NAN in Ibadan that government needed to
check cases of land grabbing through an instrumentality of enactment of law.
Akanmu said that if such legislation was not urgently enacted, it could lead to
increase in loss of lives and property in the state.
Mrs Alake Gbadamosi , an octogenarian, said it was unfortunate that such issues
had become the order of the day in the state.
She said that the recent law on land grabbing by the Lagos State was worth being
emulated by other states to foster peaceful coexistence.
“The state government has worked so hard in entrenching peace in the state.
“I think they should embrace the Lagos State idea to maintain the peace they
fought very had for,” she said.
Also, Mr Sanjo Adekunle , a land speculator, said that the prevalence cases of land
grabbing gives them more problem in their jobs.
Adekunle said that the enactment of such law would help them a lot .
NAN reports that the Lagos State Government had in August signed a new law
outlawing land grabbing and extortion of money from land developers in the state.
The property protection law was enacted as the appropriate response to the
menace of locals, popularly called Omo-Oniles, who are mainly the original or
earliest inhabitants of the different areas of the state.
The law prohibits forceful entry and illegal occupation of landed properties, violent
and fraudulent conducts in relation to landed properties in Lagos State and for
connected purposes.
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