LASG Intervenes In LASU Land Trespass Matter

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Gov. Akinwumi Ambode

The Lagos State Government has started interventionist actions on matters arising from the massive encroachment of land belonging to the state-owned university, LASU, by land grabbers of (Omo oniles) in neighbouring communities.
Surprisingly, however, the cheering news in the development is that by the magnanimity of the state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, none of those found guilty of the LASU’s land trespass will forfeit any inch of the stolen land mass back to the state-owned government as proprietor of the institution or to LASU as original victim of the tresspass.
This is coming in the wake of the governor’s instruction that all current owners of properties on the encroached land should only pay some paltry amount of money to the coffers of the government and still retain their status as house owners but as tenants to LASU.
This was announced at stakeholders’ meeting held recently at the Three-in-one Hall, Education Faculty of the university by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode who was represented by a high powered delegation of the state executive including the Special Assistant on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank-Olemo, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, Commissioner for Physical Planning, Hon. Wasiu Anifowoshe and the Special Assistant to the governor on Urban Development, Yetunde Onabule all of whom relayed the governor’s insistence on making penalty very light for all the culprits of the LASU land trespass by paying a token of a hundred thousand Naira as Regularisation Fee for each building depending on size of such structure beginning from January 15 to April 30, 2018.
According the executive instruction, defaulters will have to pay an additional 25% of the original fee from May 1st to June 30th, 2018 while further default will attract added cost of 50% from July 1 to September 30 and subsequently, whoever fails to pay up by October 1 will automatically be assumed to have forfeited the property involved to the Lagos State University who owns the Certificate of Occupancy to the entire encroached land ab initio.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Lanre Fagbohun lamented that the varsity had lost a whooping 75% of its entire land mass to illegal activities of trespassers which, he noted had been on with impunity for many years.
He further regretted that as a result of the massive loss of land space to land speculators and grabbers, popularly known as “Omo Oniles”, the institution could not maximise its admission capacity of 8,000 as approved by the National University Commission (NUC) because there is not enough land space to erect hostels for students’ accommodation and other necessary complementary structural facilities, a situation which the VC revealed had forced the university to cut it’s admission quota drastically to 3,000.
He therefore, appealed to all concerned to cooperate so as to allow Governor Ambode’s dream of making LASU a Centre of Excellence among its global contemporaries come true.

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