Kwara Community Cries Out Over Ongoing Illegal Demolition Houses; Writes Open Letter To FG

The entire community of Ifesowapo-Irewolede of Osin Okanji community in Ilorin West Local Government of Kwara State has cried out to the Federal Government over what they described as ' illegal acquisition of their landed properties and demolition of their buildings' for National Housing Project in Kwara State.

The community in an open letter signed by one Balogun Johnson, the Secretary of the community, seen by News Punch but directed to the Minister of Works, Power, and House, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, alleged that their community was invaded and houses are currently being demolished by a government agency for the purpose of the housing scheme.

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The community was of the opinion that it was not against the Federal Government House scheme, but the illegal way and manner at which the Kwara State Government through the Bureau of Land is going about the matter. 

The alleged that the acquisition of their land is devoid of due legal process as stipulated by the land acquisition act as amended.

Below is the Full Text of the Open Letter Sent to the FG:

AN OPEN LETTER TO HONOURABLE MINISTER OF POWER, WORKS AND HOUSING, MR. BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA (SAN)

ILLEGAL ACQUISITION OF OUR LANDED PROPERTIES AND DEMOLITION OF OUR BUILDINGS FOR NATIONAL HOUSING PROJECT IN KWARA STATE

I write on behalf of the entire Ifesowapo-Irewolede of Osin Okanji community in Ilorin West Local Government of Kwara State to bring to your notice sir, the illegal acquisition and demolition of our buildings to pave way for the national housing scheme under your ministry.

As a law abiding citizens, we are not in any way against your vision of providing affordable housing to the Nigeria people through the national housing project. What we are against is the impunity with which the kwara state government through the DG of bureau of land is going about the whole matter. As a lawyer yourself sir, you are aware that the law stipulates the procedure through which land can be acquired under the land use act as amended.

We have been existing as a community for almost a decade only for us to notice to our surprise the movement of people who claimed to be agent of the government last year surveying our community, what followed was opening of road within our plots of land and just this year, 26th January 2017 to be precise, our buildings were marked for demolition. All efforts to seek clarification with the DG land bureau in Kwara state were rebuffed as he claimed the land had been acquired.

Up till now sir, there was no notice of acquisition to us not to talk of paying due compensation as required by law. As I write sir, the contractor handling the national housing project are currently on site, demolishing our fence and buildings.

In conclusion sir, it will be a great injustice to us as citizens of Nigeria for the government to demolish our houses and erect other residential houses on the same land. Will this act solve the housing shortage you are working hard to address?

May God give you wisdom for prompt intervention sir.

Balogun Johnson

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Secretary, Ifesowapo-Irewolede community, Osin Okanji, Kwara State

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            Honourable minister of information and culture

Kwara Governor Shocked, In Dilemma As HoS, 10 Perm Secs & Directors Involved In N500m Ghost Workers Fraud

The Point - No fewer than five permanent secretaries and five directors have been implicated in the half a billion naira monthly ghost workers’ scandal currently rocking the Kwara State Civil Service.

The revelations were made by highly placed multiple government sources, who spoke with our correspondent in Ilorin under condition of anonymity. The verification committee headed by Alhaji Isiaka Gold, who is also the Secretary to the State Government, had, while submitting its report to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed recently said they uncovered a total of 8,863 ghost workers, who had been illegally drawing over N440 million monthly from the state’s treasury .

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A source described the scandal as a very big dilemma for the state government, adding that due to the number of high ranking civil servants indicted, the government had become confused about how best to treat the issue. He said, “At least 3 Permanent Secretaries and 5 directors and a former Head of service of the state are under watch, it is suspected that some of them are in the know and they may be shown the way out.

“The number of the uncovered ghost workers is alarming, was it through connivance or something else, we will find out and everything will be revealed for us to guard against such an abuse in future. Everything in this electronic age can be traced to specifics and adequate solution proffered.

Hopefully, we have a robust properly designed data base for workers in Kwara State.” Speaking in the same vein, a Government House source described the scandal as a major headache for the state

government. “The normal thing expected of the government is to have made the indicted officials scapegoats, but they are super civil servants and that is the dilemma.

“The government has lost billions of Naira to this scam in years in both the state and civil service discovered to be paying monthly salaries, allowances and entitlements to fictitious workers,” he said. However, in his reaction,the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor, Dr. Muideen Akorede, said that the government was still studying the committee’s report.

“We are waiting for the committee’s recommendations; we are still studying the situation. There is a grace period for those who may have genuine reasons for not turning up for verification. After

that period, which I believe is three months (we will have to check again), the figures will be reconfirmed and necessary measures adopted.

“The government recognises that the 9-month verification period was enough for all genuine workers and pensioners to be verified. There may still be people with genuine cases such as the sick, those living abroad or others. The final decision on perpetrators can only be taken after the buffer period. The new payroll based on the report will form the basis for paying salaries from this month. Claims and objections can then be looked into on a monthly basis,” Akorede added.