Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday said the federal government had treated the state with outright prejudice by selling parcels of land it acquired for public use from the state to private interests or individuals.
The governor lamented the decision of the federal government to issue certificate of occupancy (C of O) in Abuja for parcels of land in Lagos, pointing out that it was illegal for the federal government to issue such document.

He said this at a public presentation of two books by former Federal Commissioner of Works, Alhaji Femi Okunnu and the wife of former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos, Mrs. Gbemi Shasore respectively in Victoria Island.
At the presentation of the books titled “Contemporary State Land Matters in Nigeria: A Case Study of Lagos State and In Her Own Right: Abimbola Fashola,” Fashola lamented that rather than return the land to the official owners, the federal government continued “to sell them to individuals for commercial purposes.

“I think we have received the short end of the stick as a people (residents of Lagos). Lagos is one of the few states that are bounded by lagoon and ocean on the side. Yet, that is the place I think we have been most treated unfairly by the central government.
He said the federal government took over Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) on Lagos Island, noting that the federal government “is only a manager and not landlord. It belongs to Lagos. It was originally crown land. It was given to the central government to manage. It is alarming that the manager has started selling the land left in its care.

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