Olubadan Inaugurates Legal Committee To Tackle Land Grabbing
Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, had inaugurated a 5-member committee on land grabbing and other related heinous acts.
The committee is charged with the task of tackling the problem of land grabbing from the legal perspective.
The committee includes Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Niyi Akintola and Musibau Adetunbi.
Others are Yinka Okunade, Rahman AbdulRaheem, and Tunji Thomas.
Ladoja, in a statement by his media aide, Adeola Oloko, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Wednesday, gave the committee “an express permission to co-opt anybody from any profession, including town planning, survey, security agencies, the bar and bench who could assist in giving them sufficient greenlight to fight the scourge.”
“The fifth member, Adetunbi, SAN, was in the court at the time of the inauguration, which had in attendance the members of the Olubadan-in-council.”
Olubadan said both the State Government and the Olubadan-in-Council were on the same page in ridding Ibadan of the menace of land grabbing.
“Land grabbing is like an interlocking web of complex connections involving diverse interests that need to be unravelled.
“I know each of you very well. While we entertain no illusion as to the gravity of your responsibility, I have no doubt in my mind that you have the capacity to carry out the responsibility,” he affirmed.
He further told the committee to hit the ground running, giving them twenty-one days within which to make its recommendations.
Ladoja, however, clarified that the inauguration of the legal advisory committee was meant to strengthen the existing committee on land matters headed by Mogaji Asimiyu Ariori.
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