Chairman of Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, Thursday declared that there’s want for a authorized backing to beat menace of land grabbing in Ibadan.
Oba Ladoja mentioned this whereas receiving the report of Niyi Akintola anti-land grabbing committee on the Olubadan Palace, Oke- Aremo, Ibadan.
He said that the proposed authorized framework would entail passing of bye-laws by our native authorities councilors, in accordance with the Land Use Act to spell out the creation of particular tribunals that will give accelerated listening to to circumstances of land grabbing in Ibadan and specify sanctions.
“We’ve come to a state of affairs the place suspected land grabbers ought to know that sufficient is sufficient. We had been investigating a land matter on this palace final week.
“Someone introduced what he referred to as a 1912 Supreme Courtroom judgement to say that the land at Alapa to Maamu, Oluyole native govt belong to his household. And we advised him that the Northern and Southern Nigeria had been amalgamated in 1914.
“Your court docket judgment predates Nigeria, subsequently, it’s faux. 1912 to 2025 is over 100 years. A lawyer amongst us was asking him if he didn’t know that it’s improper to hunt to implement court docket judgement after 10 years it was delivered.
“It’s the similar factor with faux survey plans and humorous petitions. How can any person dwelling in Ibadan dump some folks’s land in Ibadan and use an tackle in Osogbo to petition the Police Inspector Normal in Abuja to allege threat to life, gun working and terrorism. I believe there needs to be a punishment in opposition to faux petitioners.
“The super quantity of public curiosity generated by the committee made the composition of the proposed tribunals with women and men of confirmed integrity crucial.”