Valuer Wants Confistication Of Improper Property, Estates

Worried by the
spate of fraud over property ownership, an estate valuer, Michael Ezeokoli has urged both the state and Federal Governments to confisticate and auction property and estates whose ownerships could not be properly ascertained.
Ezeokoli said such move will help to check the rate at which people acquire property greedily, pointing out that some people acquise properties they do not even need, and that such is sheer greed.
Making this known to The Tide in an interaction in Port Harcourt Monday, the Estate surveyor and valuer said so much fraud was going on in the system where some people only look out for properties which they suspect that the owner is no longer alive, and from which they make claim to. He said “There is a particular group of people, particularly in the Diobu axis of Port Harcourt whose stock in trade is to look out for abandoned property, swear fake affidavit and go to court for claim, and they have been succeeding. According to him, several properties in Diobu have been falsely claimed by people whose fathers or relatives had never raised a block in Port Harcourt, but are now landlords from other people’s sweat.
Ezeokoli therefore called on the government and the authorities  of the judiciary to wake up to this task to ensure that claims of ownership of estates and properties be properly screened and possibly auction those without proper identifications.

Corlins Walter