Ogun gives measures to prevent school land encroachment

The Ogun State Special Adviser/Director General, Bureau of Lands and Survey, Mr Aina Salami, has said proper land documentation and official gazette of land acquisition are panacea to encroachment on school land in the state, especially by land grabbers.

Salami stated this through his Press Officer, Ms Morolayo Fadairo, in Abeokuta at a meeting with the officials of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

He urged the ministry and school authorities to have survey plans, register their land titles and gazette them statutorily for proper recording.

While calling on the people in the schools’ community not to buy any land around any school location, Salami urged school authorities to establish boundaries in their schools with the assistance of the Bureau of lands and Survey and put up notifications of encroachment to further dissuade buyers from falling into the hands of land grabbers.

Speaking at the meeting, representative of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Mrs Omolara Okusanya, said the purpose of the meeting was to put a lasting solution to the issue of encroachment on school land, saying that it was a serious issue that needed to be sorted out at once.

Okusanya, who appreciated the DG and his team for the advice, said encroachment was a general problem in some of the government-owned schools in different zones across the state.