Some indigenes of Oyo State have called on the Oyo State Government to enact law that will prohibit land grabbing in the state due to the increase in cases of land grabbing in the state.
The Eagle online News recalls that the Lagos State government recently enacted a legislation to check land grabbing and associated criminal tendencies in the state.
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.
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.
Gbadamosi said: “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 hard for.”
Also, Sanjo Adekunle, a land speculator, said that the prevalence cases of land grabbing give them more problems in their jobs and she stated that the enactment of such law would help them a lot.
The Lagos State Government had in August signed a new law outlawing land grabbing and extortion of money from land developers in the state.
The property protection law was enacted as the appropriate response to the menace of locals, popularly called Omo-Oniles, who are mainly the original or earliest inhabitants of the different areas of the state.
The law prohibits forceful entry and illegal occupation of landed properties, violent and fraudulent conducts in relation to landed properties in Lagos State and for connected purposes.
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