122 Families Got Compensated For Kwara Poly Land – Mgt

Date: 2024-03-18

The Kwara state government says it has compensated a total of 122 families who owned the land the state Polytechnic was built on in 1973.

The Director of Students Services, Surveyor Abubakar Garba Aremu, disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Ilorin.

He was accompanied by some other members of the school management.

The explanation came on the heels of the recent tension generated between the management and the villagers over the issue.

According to Aremu, the “original 122 families were adequately compensated as at July 6, 1974 before they were asked to move out of the land.

The institution's director of Student's Services also said that over 1,000 hectares of land had been encroached upon out of a total land space of 4,500 hectares of the school.

Surveyor Aremu said that construction of development projects and infrastructures had been denied by the effects of the encroachment activities of the villagers.

He added that threats, intimidation and litigation by the villagers had served as a stumbling block against the plan of the school to establish a school of Agriculture and accreditation of relevant courses.

The official noted that a total space of 5,400 hectares was acquired for the school in 1973 when it was established by the military administration of Colonel David Bamigboye.

“When we ceded part of the land by 300 meters to the villagers, the institution's land was reduced to 4,500 hectares”.

“Unfortunately many of the villagers refused to move out of the land even after collecting the compensation.

“However, caretakers of the land are actually the problem now. Some of the people relocated came back to farm there”, he said.

Aremu added that the “school will not be deterred by campaign of calumny or litigation by people already compensated.

“It's the responsibility of the Kwara State government to sustain the property to serve the educational purpose it was established. We as caretaker of the land, it is our responsibility to see that it's not encroached upon.”

The Kwara Poly management thanked the efforts of the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, for setting up a mediation committee to resolve land disputes in Ilorin.

He said the establishment of the committee was already yielding results “as many of the villagers are withdrawing court cases against the school management”.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Isiaka Yusuf     Asa     Hausa     Muazam Nayaya     Okin Biscuits     Gbenga Adebayo     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Saad Omo Iya     AGM Professional Services     Ilorin West     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Nigerian Correctional Service     PPS     Amos Justus Sayo     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Arandun     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Gobir Organization Foundation     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Overland     Ilorin Metro Park     Awoye     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Principal Private Secretary     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Balogun Gambari     Just Law Forum     Doyin Awoyale     Park     Olusegun Adeniyi     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Sobi Hill     George Innih     SUBEB     Earlyon Technologies     Lucky Omoluwa     EFCC     Saheed Akinwumi     Durbar     Ilorin Amusement Park     Kubra Kazum     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Olatunde Jare     Kolawole Akande     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Mohammed Saidu     Ilorin East     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Offa Grammer School     Bilikisu Gambari     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Olokoba Sulyman     Omotoso     Mohammed Haruna     Iyeru Grammar School     Balikis Jawondo     Student Learning Support Helpline     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Sunday Fagbemi     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Yinka Aluko     Abdulkareem Alabi     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Lithium Deposit     Talaka Parapo     Michael Nzwekwe     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Sola Saraki University     Florence Saraki     Alanamu     Olaitan Buraimoh     Abdul-Rahoof Bello    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Isiaka Danmeromu     Elerinjare     Roseline Oni Aremu     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Oyelere Oyinloye     Abdulhakeem Amao     Bamidele Aluko     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Makama     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Face Masks     Kulende-UITH     NURTW     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Ubandoma     Oyedepo     UITH     Amina El-Imam     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Amuda Aluko     Na\'Allah     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Kanu Agabi     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Oba-Solagberu     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Pius Abioje     Adanla-Irese     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Seed Technologies     Saba Jibril     Lafiagi     Alore     Hamid Bobboyi     COVID     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Owode Market     Omoniyi Ayinla     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Kaosarah Adeyi     SWAN     Nurudeen Muhammed     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Gbugbu International Market     Moses Rahman Popoola     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Garba Dogo     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Raimi Iyanda     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Saba Mamman Daniel     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Elese Of Igbaja     Akeem Lawal     Guber Aspirant     Tafidan Kaiama     Kwara South     11th Galadima     Ishola Abdullahi     Sanusi Abubakar     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Saidu Yaro Musa     Post-utme     Sai Kayi     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Hausa     Ijakadi     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     John Olobayo