Connect with us
Advertisement

Nigeria News

Kwara Govt Insist On Seizing Saraki’s Land At Ile-Arugbo For New Secretariat

Published

on

Daughter calls for immortalization of Saraki
Advertisement

Kwara State Government has insisted that the Saraki family failed to make necessary payments for a piece of land it occupied in Ilorin for its family house in the 70’s

Naija News recalls that the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki attacked Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman Abdul Razak for taking over a piece of land that allegedly belong to his family, the state bureau of lands says Saraki family didn’t pay for the land.

Speaking on behalf of the Kwara State Government, The Director-general of the bureau of lands, Ibrahim Salman reveals that there was no evidence of payment for the land, adding that no right of occupancy was ever issued on it.

Advertisement

The entire land was acquired in the 1970s for Overriding Public Interest and same was initially designed to host the phase II of the State Secretariat. The construction of the said State Secretariat Phase II was actually commenced and it was at superstructure level before the same was abandoned.

“The entire land was later redesigned in the 1980s for the construction of a Civil Service Clinic, State Secretariat, and a parking lot for both the Clinic and the State Secretariat.

“The Clinic was subsequently constructed in 1982, while the remaining plots of land were conceived for the expansion of the Clinic into a full-fledged Hospital.

Advertisement

“The dream of the State Government was stalled when part of the land slated for the parking lot was spuriously allocated in principle to one Asa Investment for commercial purpose.

“From available records, the allocation was not based on a formal application, nor application forms filled; there was no evidence of payment for the said allocation as stipulated in the letter of allocation in principle and consequently, no right of occupancy was ever issued to the Company.

“Furthermore, in flagrant abuse of the allocation terms, the company took possession of the land and constructed what is today known as “Ile Arugbo” on part of the land that was designed as parking lot and later conceived to host the expansion of the Civil Service Clinic into a full-fledged Hospital.”

Advertisement
Advertisement

Salmon said the land was seized following a resolution of the Kwara state house of assembly mandating the government to revoke the allocation.