Olaseni Koya, a project manager in the United Kingdom, acquired a land lease from the Ogun state government in 2019.

He was given a provisional allocation of the land, but all his efforts to get a physical allocation for his N4.29 million acquisition have been proved abortive despite Koya’s attempts to contact various agencies and government officials.

Koya told EQ on Wednesday that the land was located in Riverview Estate, Isheri, and it was a lease that was supposed to last for 99 years.

Provisional Allocation Ogun Land Bureau Handed Koya

All concerted efforts and clarification requests made by Koya and his lawyer in letters to different government officials and offices only fell on deaf ears.

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“My lawyer has written letters to the deputy governor, to the DG-Bureau of Lands, to the attorney general and to the Ogun state chief of staff. They received the letters but did not have the courtesy to reply or tell us what has been happening with the allocation in that place,” Koya explained.

Apart from numerous letters that have only been met with silence, Koya was only told to “go and wait” after visits paid to the Bureau of Lands in Abeokuta.

“There was a time the former director general of the Bureau of Land told me that we paid during Governor Amosun’s time. He said this is their own time, Dapo Abiodun’s time. But we paid the Ogun state government, not Ibikunle Amosun,” Koya explained.

Koya said he also wrote a petition to Gbenga Daniel, a former Ogun Governor, but it was still not enough to make the government fulfil their end of the bargain.

Koya also said that he was not alone in his plight as there were more land buyers who were also waiting to get their allocation years after payment.

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“It is not only me. Many other people are not talking but are hurt by what this Dapo Abiodun’s government is doing,” he told EQ.

EQ called Doyin Okulalu, the Ogun State director of land management, on Thursday. She did not answer the phone calls.

EQ also sent an email to the Ogun State Land Administration and Revenue Management System (OLARMS) on Thursday, but they were yet to respond at press time.
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