The Lagos State Geographic Information (GIS) and digital
mapping would go online before the end of 2012 to speed up land documentation.

The present land documentation according to The Tide source
was slowed down by physical submission and retrieval of land information for
processing and tittles, particularly certificate of occupancy (CofO).

The surveyor General of Lagos State Mr. Joseph Olorunjuwon
Ajenla who stated this at the weekend explained that his mission was to
integrate data from the land registry, land information systems and GIS to have
a robust land registry.

“At the punch of a button, we will have the characteristics
of all land in Lagos State”, he said.

He said very soon, the GIS system would be operational
explaining that the take off was delayed due to logistics beyond anybody’s
control.

“It has been uploaded and everything is set.

“it is just some grey areas that are being addressed now”,
he said.

Mr. Ajenla said the control centre ought to be in the office
of the Surveyor General with back up from the ICT centre.

“This will be the control area from which everybody will
access it from outside through the web.”

We have the officers on ground to manage all resources the
public will need.

Once you pay by using the card system, you will have access
to the web page” he said.

He further explained that the delay experienced in the
issuance of (CofO) that was being blamed on the survey department would be a
thing of the past as more zonal offices would be created.

“What I do as Surveyor General is that i supervise survey
practice in Lagos State, as Chairman of Ethics Committee. You can control but
only give directives to private surveyors except we make registration to
enforce the status that says 40 days after surveying a land the surveyor, must
bring the red copy to the SG office.

He said besides surveyors not submitting survey plans, there
were some erroneous surveys the private surveyors do which they cannot submit
to the records office.