Olubadan Inaugurates Legal Committee To Tackle Land Grabbing

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, has warned against onshore grabbing, saying those down the nefarious enactment are liable for tarnishing the city’s estimation and volition soon look challenging times.

The monarch gave the informing astatine the Olubadan Palace, Oke Aremo, Ibadan, portion inaugurating a five-member committee of ineligible practitioners charged with addressing the menace of onshore grabbing from a ineligible standpoint.

The improvement was contained successful a connection signed by the Olubadan’s media aide, Mr Adeola Oloko, and made disposable to newsmen successful Ibadan.

The committee members included Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN), Barrister Musibau Adetunbi (SAN), Yinka Okunade, Rahman Abiodun AbdulRaheem, and Tunji Thomas. However, Barrister Adetunbi was unavoidably absent astatine the inauguration.

Charging the committee to collaborate with professionals from different sectors, specified arsenic municipality planning, surveying, and information agencies, Oba Ladoja said they should “hit the crushed running” and taxable their recommendations wrong 21 days.

“Land grabbing successful Ibadan is an interlocking web of analyzable connections involving divers interests that indispensable beryllium unravelled.

“While we entertain nary illusion arsenic to the gravity of your assignment, I bash not uncertainty successful my caput astir your capableness to deliver”, the monarch said.

Oba Ladoja clarified that the recently inaugurated ineligible advisory committee would complement the efforts of the existing committee connected onshore matters headed by Mogaji Asimiyu Ariori.

He added that the Olubadan-in-Council and the Oyo State authorities stock a communal committedness to eradicating the menace.

Also, the Balogun of Ibadanland, Oba Tajudeen Ajibola, commended the inaugural and described onshore grabbing arsenic a unsafe inclination that endangers residents.

He called for creating anti-land-grabbing tribunals successful each 11 section authorities areas successful Ibadanland to guarantee swift justice.

Responding connected behalf of the committee, Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN) thanked the Olubadan and the Olubadan-in-Council for the accidental to serve.