Lagos Assembly to hold stakeholders' meeting on Land grabbing

According to the resolution, the planned meeting would involve the state government, the police, the judiciary, traditional rulers and others.

Law makers at the Lagos State House of Assembly have resolved to hold a public hearing on Land grabbing in a bid to proffer urgent and pragmatic solutions to the problem in the state. The Law makers reached the agreement at Plenary monitored by our Correspondent on Tuesday. According to the resolution, the planned stakeholders’ meeting would be all-encompassing involving the state government, the police, the judiciary, traditional rulers and others. Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, who presided over the plenary said land grabbing has become “a serious issue that is beyond disturbing. It is chaotic. Many people have been killed, some maimed and some locked up. without trial just because of the existence of some people who have turned themselves to land grabbers.”

Obasa frowned at cases where land speculators write petitions and with the connivance of security officials, the real owners of the properties are arrested, taken to Abuja and forced to sign undertakings that wou…