COMMUNITIES URGE AMBODE’S INTERVENTION IN CONTROVERSIAL LAND ACQUISITIONS

     

Miffed by the incessant faceoff between property owners and government officials over land issues, some communities in Lagos have appealed to the state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to wade into controversy surrounding some landed property acquired by the state. In the last five years, not less than 10 cases of revocation embarked upon have caused a faceoff between government and property owners, in many parts of the state. These include Odo-Iragunsen community, where over 150 properties were demolished at the instance of the Ministry for physical planning and urban development; the threats by the same ministry to demolish a portion of parafa area of ikorodu; the demolition of pure fire church, along the Epe-Ibeju road; the demolition of Ayobo in Ayopo-Ipaja area, where 175 houses were also demolished, amid many others.