IEDPU warns Ahmed over 'elitist' land grab

Date: 2012-06-19

Indigenes of Ilorin, under the umbrella of Ilorin Emirate Descendant Progressive Union (IEDPU), frowned yesterday at what they described as the "elitist land policy of the Kwara State Government" and urged the state lawmakers to implement a planned review of the policy they argued is allegedly ceding community lands acquired for public interest to private individuals. 

The union, in a statement signed by its President and a former Chief Judge of the state, Justice Saka Yusuf (rtd), said the alleged 'excision' of large portions of land from public schools was  capable of destroying  what represent significant milestones in the culture and intellectual development of the community.

The union also warned that it would not hesitate to pursue other legitimate means to undo what it described as "unacceptable land policy" of the government "if the attempt of the Kwara State House of Assembly in that directive is insensitively ignored".

Excerpt from the statement reads: "The people of Ilorin Emirate were and still not delighted with the elitist land policy, particularly as it has to do with the insensitive excisions of large portions of land from public schools and institutions for onward stage-managed allocation to the highest and influential bidders.

"Our distinguished and visionary fore bearers who granted those public institutions such large portions of lands actually knew what they were doing as the reasons for such are still justifiable even many decades after the original acquisition.

"The Union therefore advise the Kwara state government to legitimately open up fallow and un-occupied land for residential and other worthwhile purposes instead of annexing land of institutions that represented significant milestone in our culture and intellectual advancement just to satisfy the yearning of a few.

"The umbrella socio-cultural organisation of the people of Ilorin Emirate also warned that the community, as an important stakeholder, would not accept a situation where lands originally acquired for public interest are disdainfully converted into private usage which is a blatant violation of the core objective (s) behind the acquisition in the first instance".

Meanwhile members of the state assembly have called on Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed to liaise with National Assembly members from the state to ensure the re-award of contract for the Ajase-Ipo, Ijagbo-Offa-Erin-Ile –Osun boundary road which was earlier awarded last year by the Federal Government at the cost of N248 million.

The lawmakers made the resolution while considering a motion on matters of urgent importance brought by a member representing Oke-Ogun constituency, Kamal Fagbemi on the slow pace of work on the rehabilitation of the road.

The meeting, presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Professor Gana Yisa, equally directed the committee on Energy, Works and Transport to collaborate with members of the national assembly from the state with a view to ensuring that all FERMA road projects in the state are completed according to specification.

The lawmakers also urged the state government to include Idofian-Igbowu-Maloko-Igbaja Road in the budget fro next year while directing officials of the Ifelodun local government area to ensure regular maintenance of the said road pending the construction.

The Position of the People of Ilorin Emirate on the Land Policy of the Kwara State Government

IEDPU flays Ahmed's land policy

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ilorin     CCT     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Abdulwahab Ololele     Sardauna     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Erin-ile     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Omupo     Okin Group     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Matthew Babaoye     Durbar     Musa Alhassan Buge     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Aminu Ado Bayero     National Pilot     Olabanji Orilonishe     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Ramat Oganija     Aminat Ahmed     Ijagbo Health Centre     Bukola Saraki     Javed Khan     Bluenile Associates     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Ballah     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Iyiola Oyedepo     Kunbi Titiloye     Olatunji Ayeni     BIR     KWAFFA     Ibrahim Mashood     Sherif Shagaya     Ile Arugbo     Lawal Olohungbebe     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Crystal Corner Shops     Abatemi Usman     Rafiu Ajakaye     Alfa Yahaya Road     Kwara 2019     Christopher Odetunde     Oyin-Zubair     Kwara North     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     REO CAKES     Okin Malt     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Adaramaja     Orisa Bridge     Sanusi Abubakar     Amina El-Imam     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     SGBN     Olatinwo     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Quranic Recitation Competition     Afeyin-Olukuta     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Chikanda     Awodun     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Okanlawon Musa     Olugbense     KWTV     Olatunji Ibrahim     Ilorin Central Mosque     Bamidele Aluko     Olayinka Are     Aliyu Alhassan     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Ilorin Airport    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bayo Lawal     Shonga     Kayode Ogunlowo     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Ayodele Shittu     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Balogun Gambari     ER-KANG     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Sidikat Alaya     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Baaziki Sulaiman     Sun Qing Rong     Aliyu Salihu     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Salihu Alhaji Musa     JAMB     Monsurat Omotosho     Kannike     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Al-Adaby     Nnazua     Okanlawon Taiwo     Ilorin Emirate     Transition Implementation Committee     Al-Ilory     IPSAS     A.O. Belgore     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Tunde Saad     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Radio Kwara     Kwara University Of Education     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Mohammed Haruna     CUTI     Sarakite     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Saliu Ajia     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Ishola Moses Abiodun     UITH     Maja     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Ubandoma     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Kayode Bankole     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Muhammadu Gobir     Ibrahim Akaje     Salaudeen Oyewale     Tunde Kazeem     11th Galadima     Elections     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Kwara Metro Park     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     NSCIA     Manzuma     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Abdullahi Atanda     Convocation Ceremonies     Tunji Folami     Lukman Adeloyin     Olawuyi     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Kayode Laro