Land acquisition: We”ll review policies, processes to attract more investors in Ogun

THE new Director General of the Ogun State Bureau of Lands and Survey, Jumoke Akinwunmi, has promised that the state government would review the processes and policies of acquiring land in the state for investment purposes.

She said this on Tuesday while taking over the leadership of the Bureau from Mr Biyi Ismail, who resigned his appointment on Monday, to pursue political ambition.

Akinwunmi said that government had been put in place a law that checkmates activities of land grabbers, assuring potential investors of land acquisition without the brouhaha of land grabbers.

She noted that the review of policies and processes would further attract would be investors to open up their businesses in the state.

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Akinwunmi said, “On investors assurance, it is our absolute responsibility to ensure that we provide a kind of service that creates and attract the kind of industries and businesses that we want in our state.

“Fortunately, there are processes through everything. Over the next few weeks, we will review those processes to ensure improvements where necessary.

“Once again, we will go through reviews, drill through what the issues are and look for solutions to ensure that we are able to provide the assurances that investors are looking for.”

The DG assured investors that the activities of land grabbers would be totally eradicated across the state.

“In terms of tackling land grabbing issue, there is a law concerning this in the state, I do believe that the law has been put to test. If you have a law and you don’t make use of it regularly, people can easily forget that such a law exists.

“Definitely, we are going to make sure that we don’t shy away from that the law of the land regarding this matter with the land grabbers,” she added.