The Ilorin Solidarity Club, a sister organisation of the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), has urged the Kwara State government to expedite action on the abrogation of its land acquisition policy.

The Land Acquisition Policy 2009 of the state government has pitched the state government against IEDPU.

The union alleged that the state government had sold many customary lands in the state without informing or paying compensation to land owners.

The group also condemned the urbanisation of native areas in Ilorin by the state government.

IEDPU said abolition of the Act would check against indiscriminate acquisition of lands by government.

This development caused the state House of Assembly to call for the suspension of the policy in the interest of peace.

In a statement, the President of Ilorin Solidarity Club, Justice Saka Yusuf said: The "people of Ilorin, nay the entire people of the state, are only waiting for a more positive response that would lay the ghost of the land order in dispute to rest permanently. We do not believe in the prevailing peace of the graveyard.

"We congratulate the IEDPU and commend the efforts of its leadership so far on the land acquisition policy of the Kwara State government. We support the union wholeheartedly as a sister organisation for every step taken on the vexatious matter till date.

"We also express full appreciation to the Kwara state House of Assembly for its bold and admirable action in upholding the people's wish, through its timely arrest of the grandstanding posture of the state government on the controversial policy ab initio.We hope it will maintain that stand and defend the cause of the people (the lawmaker's constituency) till the end."