Oyo Indigenes Seek Law Prohibiting Land Grabbing

Some indigenes of Oyo
State have called on the Oyo State Government to enact law that will prohibit land grabbing in the state.
They told The Tide in separate interviews in Ibadan on Wednesday that there were many cases of land grabbing in the state.
Recall that the Lagos State government recently enacted a legislation to check land grabbing and associated criminal tendencies in the state.
Mr Bashiru Akanmu, a farmer, said in Ibadan that government needed to check cases of land grabbing through an instrumentality of enactment of law.
Akanmu said that if such legislation was not urgently enacted, it could lead to increase in loss of lives and property in the state.
Mrs Alake Gbadamosi, an octogenarian, said it was unfortunate that such issues had become the order of the day in the state.
She said that the recent law on land grabbing by the Lagos State was worth being emulated by other states to foster peaceful coexistence.
“The state government has worked so hard in entrenching peace in the state.
“I think they should embrace the Lagos State idea to maintain the peace they fought very had for,” she said.
Also, Mr Sanjo Adekunle, a land speculator, said that the prevalence cases of land grabbing gives them more problem in their jobs.
entry and illegal occupation of landed properties, violent and fraudulent conducts in relation to landed properties in Lagos State and for connected purposes.