‘No 17-Year-Old Can Apply For Land Registration In Edo’

Edo State Geographic Information Systems (Edo GIS) has insisted that nary 17-year-old tin use for onshore registration successful the state.

It clarifified that determination was nary time, 14,000 hectares of onshore were acquired by 17-year-old boy.
The bureau debunked reports circulating connected societal media alleging that a 17-year-old-boy purchased 14,000 hectares of onshore successful Edo State and was subsequently denied a Certificate of Occupancy (C-of-O) by Governor Monday Okpebholo.

Edo GIS stated this portion debunking study successful conception of the media that Okpeholo suspended the issuance of C-of-O due to the fact that the applicant was a teenager.

In a connection released by the manager of Press, Tunde Egbiremonlen, the bureau said that nary specified transaction exists successful its records.

According to the statement, a 17-year-old is legally considered a insignificant and, arsenic such, is not eligible to registry onshore ownership nether Edo State law.

“The Edo GIS strategy volition automatically cull specified applications owed to property restrictions,” the connection read.

“In the archetypal place, a 17-year-old cannot use for registration of onshore successful Edo authorities due to the fact that that property bracket is assumed to beryllium a minor; the Edo GIS strategy volition automatically cull the application.

“To compound the nonsubjective of the rumour-mongers, the peddlers of the communicative did not explicate wherever successful Edo state, specified 14,000 hectares were purchased by the minor.”

Egbiremonlen besides pointed retired inconsistencies successful the viral report, noting that it failed to notation the circumstantial determination of the alleged 14,000 hectares and described the communicative arsenic “deliberately mischievous and fabricated.”

He accused the originators of the mendacious accusation of attempting to origin disaffection and blackmail the government, alleging that important funds were spent to circulate the fake news.

Edo GIS urged the nationalist to disregard the claims and stay vigilant against disinformation aimed astatine undermining the government’s credibility.