Land grabbers collected N1.5bn from victims in 2 years---Edo GovtBy Editor


By Editor


Nov 2, 2022


The Edo State government on Wednesday said a total of N1.5 billion were collected by land grabbers from their victims in the last two years.

Chris Nehikhare, the State commissioner for Communication and Orientation made the disclosure in Benin City while briefing journalists on the resolutions of the State Executive Council meeting.

Nehikhare said the information was obtained from 499 people who are victims of land grabbers that come for data capturing and enumeration.

He said the money was collected from the victims by the land grabbers between 2020 and 2022 respectively.

He said the government will do everything possible to ensure that those that have been identified as land grabbers will be prosecuted and if found guilty will be sent to jail.

The commissioner, who said the state government was serious on his land administration reform, urged members of the public and land developers to always find out the authenticity of land they intend to buy so as not to fall victims to land grabbers.

While commending the people for the cooperation geared towards sanitizing land administration system in the state, he noted that the state government, Edo people and victims  are not happy with the activities of land grabbers.

According to him, we are very serious in fixing the anomalies in our land administration system in the state. For what we have done so far at Irhirhi axis, where the recovering of government lands started and from the enumeration and data so far done, the land grabbers have in the last two years collected the sum of N1.5billion from their victims.

"This take place between 2020 and 2022. This is the information we received from the 499 people who have come for data capturing and who are also victims of land grabbing", he said.

He said the names of those identified will soon be announced, charged to court and prosecuted.

"Very soon, the first set of the culprits will be announced,  charged to court for prosecuted",he added.

The commissioner disclosed that the victims of the land grabbing will be restituted from whatever it was able to get from the land grabbers especially from the N1.5billion.

He also disclosed that the state government will soon commence the sale of its land in the Irhirhi areas as from January, 2023, and added that the people will benefit immensely from the sales of the land.

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