A Professor of Estate Management at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Bioye Tajudeen Aluko, has marked Nigerian lead representatives as “land grabbers”.
Talking in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, during the 2021 Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Seminar (MCPD) of the Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), with the topic, “Powerful Land Administration System Toward Elegant Formal Land Market In Nigeria”, Aluko said they stow away under the Land Use Act to gain and apportion land to their comrades.
The wear, who was the visitor speaker at the workshop, said lead representatives were prone to improve themselves and their political partners through procuring others’ territory and allotting same to those in their great books.
As indicated by him, the lead representatives put land organization under their consideration, thinking about how a lead representative would have sufficient opportunity to regulate lands when he ought to be occupied with other formative tasks.
Aluko censured the Land Use Act, asking that it ought to be eliminated from the Nigerian constitution.
While saying another land law ought to be re-ordered, the scholarly said terrains ought to be given over to their unique proprietors to stop the emergencies emerging from land getting.
He said “Segment one of the Land Use Act didn’t eliminate the individual land proprietors as proprietors of their territories. In any case, the land grabbers are stowing away under that cover: in light of the fact that the state isn’t the proprietor.
“The first land proprietors are the proprietors of their properties. Stowing away under that cover, that is the reason you see lead representatives enhancing their companions, as a type of political support. Assuming you don’t have a place with their gatherings, you can’t get distribution. It is land getting. Consider it some other name, it is land getting.
“Most states will obtain land, they said it is a public land. Before you know it, they will split those terrains between themselves. In case you check out every one of the lead representatives in this country, they put land under their service. Assuming a lead representative is not kidding, and he is really keen on the advancement of their state, will he possess energy for directing area? He would have passed on the experts to do it without anyone else’s help”, he said.
In his comments, Ogun Chairman of NIESV, Wale Ojo, said the occasion was coordinated to evaluate the viability of land organization in the nation and how the foundation can give answers for issues encompassing landed property.
Ojo said, “There has been endeavors by a few state run administrations in Nigerian both
in strategy plan and execution pointed toward controlling and
directing the utilization and different types of land proprietorships.
“In any case the different types of guidelines to control the utilization of land despite urbanization and uncontrolled populace development, the interest for land will keep on seeing vertical pattern both in ability of individuals to
require land for the wellbeing of its as land or for labor and products that it serves to
give. Notwithstanding, on the stockpile side these assets or part
called land is restricted and modest.”