In order to curtail incidence of racketeering and unlawful grabbing of land , delay in the issuance of certificate of occupancy, Kogi State government through the Land and Housing Services Bureau has acquired automated Certificate of Occupancy machine.
During the unveiling of the machine in the Governor’s office on Friday, Governor Yahaya Bello commended the Bureau for ensuring that his administration’s policy in the area of land reform was yielding result.
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Earlier, the Director-General, Land and Housing Services Bureau, Hajia Mariam Ladi Ibrahim, commended Governor Yahaya Bello for the genuine reform the Bureau has witnessed under his leadership.
Hajia Mariam noted that under the past administrations, about a thousand certificates were properly issued to land owners stressing that the current administration has signed five hundred certificates while additional six hundred were ready for signing.
Aside fast tracking the process of certificate issuance, she noted with the Automated machine, issues of fake C of O, land racketeering would be things of the past.
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