Eko o ni baje o!

una no dey try

omohayek:
While I agree with Ambode that the Land Use Act needs to go, I strongly disagree with his suggested replacement. Why should the state governors, using the legislatures they control, be given even more freedom to act like mini-dictators?

What needs to replace the Land Use Act is to make clear and easy provision for individuals to acquire perpetual title to land, and to then dispose of said land as they please, whether by sale, gifting it or whatever. It should be made much harder for politicians to interfere with individual property rights except where eminent domain clearly applies, and een then individuals should be entitled to receive fair market value (as assessed by an agency independent from the government) for the land taken from them.

Of course, all of the above is what one would wish for in a sane country whose leaders are actually serious about making the citizens lives better, rather than merely searching for new opportunities to steal. As such I don't expect any governors, senators or house members to come forward in favor of individual land rights.

This is brilliant.

Nairalanders, this post is the key to unlocking Nigerias prosperity.

Individuals should have the rights to land and not government whether Federal, State or Local government.

FG should not do this

These are all anomalies which must be addressed holistically in a re-structured Confederal System of Governance and not the Unitary System we practice at the moment.

The Federal Government is a failure, and we must support every State Government to wake up and fight the center and deliver good governance to the States. Who has the Federal Government helped?

There is no Federal Government except overbloated Legislature, cabal Presidency and a corrupt Federal Judges/Judiciary. There is no Federal Government but a set of thieves living large at Abuja.

Ambode is one of the shinning lights of this country, he knows what he is doing and has my 100% unalloyed support.

davidif:
I wish more Nigerians were really passionate about this issue cos property rights is the most foundational building block of any successful economy. Without it, the society will continue to be poor and massive inequality will continue to reign in the land. If there was any thing all Nigerians should be up in arms about it's should be this issue. Someone needs to explain this topic so that the common man can understand this. That if I find gold (Or oil) on my land, it's mine and not the govts. As long as I pay property taxes on the land to the local govt I am good. The govt has no right to come and take it from me.

This is RESTRUCTURING.

Nigerians think that restructuring ends at giving powers to States from Federal.

At the heart of restructuring is giving Individuals rights to own lands. We don't need the Government to own it and lease it to us for 99 years or say they own all the minerals located on the Land.

It's unfortunate that almost all Civil society organisations in Nigeria are dead. Normally they should have been both online and offline explaining this to Nigerians. Right now Politicians have hijacked the process, be rest assured we will never this restructuring right.

omohayek:
While I agree with Ambode that the Land Use Act needs to go, I strongly disagree with his suggested replacement. Why should the state governors, using the legislatures they control, be given even more freedom to act like mini-dictators?

What needs to replace the Land Use Act is to make clear and easy provision for individuals to acquire perpetual title to land, and to then dispose of said land as they please, whether by sale, gifting it or whatever. It should be made much harder for politicians to interfere with individual property rights except where eminent domain clearly applies, and een then individuals should be entitled to receive fair market value (as assessed by an agency independent from the government) for the land taken from them.

Of course, all of the above is what one would wish for in a sane country whose leaders are actually serious about making the citizens lives better, rather than merely searching for new opportunities to steal. As such I don't expect any governors, senators or house members to come forward in favor of individual land rights.

restructuring would only become perfect if immunity can be stripped off our governors..

Complete regionalism or breakup - no half measures. Marriage is not by force anywhere in the world.
If countries like Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Benin Rep., Lesotho, Rwanda, Malawi, etc, all in Africa, can stand alone, then any geo-political region in Nigeria can also stand alone.
Enough of leaches and parasites. No one has the monopoly of violence.
If the current leaders in yorubaland including Kwara and Kogi should fail to get our people out of this cesspit of a minormer called Nigeria, posterity will never forgive them.
Tinubu must subsume his personal national mis-ambition for the larger interest of Oodua.
And they MUST plan to the complete exclusion of OBJ who is a mole.

Now is the time for all good men and women at home and in the diaspora to
come to the aid of Oodua sons and daughters.
Those who can should source for the Lugard constitution of 1904 and have it published on google and major world and nigerian print media.
Enough of talking. Time for action.
Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. The time when something good must give in nigeria and its component parts has come.
Beware of people's revolution as a result of leaders' inaction.

davidif:
I wish more Nigerians were really passionate about this issue cos property rights is the most foundational building block of any successful economy. Without it, the society will continue to be poor and massive inequality will continue to reign in the land. If there was any thing all Nigerians should be up in arms about it's should be this issue. Someone needs to explain this topic so that the common man can understand this. That if I find gold (Or oil) on my land, it's mine and not the govts. As long as I pay property taxes on the land to the local govt I am good. The govt has no right to come and take it from me.

You guys have done justice to this. I was just thinking along this line today. Especially how governors can just revoke C of Os as they please. Why would I want to invest my money in a land that I could later end up losing at the whims of the government?

Blue3k:
Don't trust these state governors any restructuring without fiscal automony is a joke. Eliminate joint account provision The call for decentralized police force us excellent. Local policing by local government would be great. The land use act is stupid the people should hold their own land and mineral rights not government. State and local government regulating land is much better.

I don't agree with special status call. You used to be a capital so what. Your taxes from population and infrastructure projects should accomadate population growth. This is just self serving measure and rightly tossed in busses by mass as whole.



Davidif Omohayek: story for you.

that sounds contradictory

Is this the beginning of Yoruba agitation for restructuring?
Or should we wait for another sign?

lexy2014:
that sounds contradictory

It's not. If local government doesn't have fiscal automony we will create a situation where state government are mini dictators. Power needs to be devolved as low as possible. State government already exert too much power over day to day creating inefficient service delivery.

If you look Alot of state government are against giving LGAs automony. They steal their allocation, usurp responsibility, and leave them useless.

SplendidE:
who else didn't read that novel like me

I bolded important sections for lazy people like yourself. You can read that and have something useful to say. Lastly the smart guys have spoken on issue read and understand. Trust me the topics is super important if you care about restructuring and individual rights vs creating Emperor governors.

land use Act of 1979 was brought by obansanjo to remove resource control which the Niger Delta had...
when it was brought in the other tribes thought it would mainly affect our oil
now they are crying for it to be removed and moved to only Abuja
na lie una lie
let it stay
we will all suffer it together
now Lagos is a prime real estate
u want it removed
nonsense
Yorubas thinking they are wise

deflover:
land use Act of 1979 was brought by obansanjo to remove resource control which the Niger Delta had...
when it was brought in the other tribes thought it would mainly affect our oil
now they are crying for it to be removed and moved to only Abuja
na lie una lie
let it stay
we will all suffer it together
now Lagos is a prime real estate
u want it removed
nonsense
Yorubas thinking they are wise

Lol you must be joking. You want to keep this colonial system where government act like medieval kings to spite yoruba. You act like you wouldn't benefit immediately or your real estate value won't go up in time.

deflover:
land use Act of 1979 was brought by obansanjo to remove resource control which the Niger Delta had...
when it was brought in the other tribes thought it would mainly affect our oil
now they are crying for it to be removed and moved to only Abuja
na lie una lie
let it stay
we will all suffer it together
now Lagos is a prime real estate
u want it removed
nonsense
Yorubas thinking they are wise

Better tell your children where your village, their ancestral village is. We are all getting wiser now!!!

Blue3k:


Lol you must be joking. You want to keep this colonial system where government act like medieval kings to spite yoruba. You act like you would benefit immediately or your real estate value won't go up on time.

this system was supported by Yorubas to take oil from my land and give it to ur people
all of a sudden u don't want it anymore cos ur state is now a prime real estate

deflover:


this system was supported by Yorubas to take oil from my land and give it to ur people
all of a sudden u don't want it anymore cos ur state is now a prime real estate

Dude get out your feelings and think rationally. I didn't claim they are saints or their motives are pure. The first thing I said was don't trust these governors. Now try to be wide the system of private property rights we're advocating for gives makes sure nobody can usurp your land and mineral resources with compensation aka royalty check or fair market buyout. This will benefit you and your long term and probably short term.

Why should you be occupier instead of owner? Why should state lease you land for 99 yrs? Why should government be able to takeep land with compensated you for full value? Is revenge against Yoruba really that import you're willing to spite your cut off your nose to spite your face?

Ps: I'm not Yoruba. I'm from Akwa Ibom. Lol sad thing about topics like this is it flies over people head. All the views and hardly any deep comments.

Blue3k:


Dude get out your feelings and think rationally. I didn't claim they are saints or their motives are pure. The first thing I said was don't trust these governors. Now try to be wide the system of private property rights we're advocating for gives makes sure nobody can usurp your land and mineral resources with compensation aka royalty check or fair market buyout. This will benefit you and your long term and probably short term.

Why should you be occupier instead of owner? Why should state lease you land for 99 yrs? Why should government be able to takeep land with compensated you for full value? Is revenge against Yoruba really that import you're willing to spite your cut off your nose to spite your face?

Ps: I'm not Yoruba. I'm from Akwa Ibom. Lol sad thing about topics like this is it flies over people head. All the views and hardly any deep comments.

I agree with u dude
but these laws were done to harm us
now they are feeling a part of it
if anything must happen
it must be d removal of the law totally and not some part of it to suit Lagos alone
but total removal to give us back our rights to my resources
slowly the obansanjo laws and all the other stupid laws are being questioned by even his people since they see it now affects them and not only the yeeboos as dey call us

Blue3k:


Dude get out your feelings and think rationally. I didn't claim they are saints or their motives are pure. The first thing I said was don't trust these governors. Now try to be wide the system of private property rights we're advocating for gives makes sure nobody can usurp your land and mineral resources with compensation aka royalty check or fair market buyout. This will benefit you and your long term and probably short term.

Why should you be occupier instead of owner? Why should state lease you land for 99 yrs? Why should government be able to takeep land with compensated you for full value? Is revenge against Yoruba really that import you're willing to spite your cut off your nose to spite your face?

Ps: I'm not Yoruba. I'm from Akwa Ibom. Lol sad thing about topics like this is it flies over people head. All the views and hardly any deep comments.

The sort of primitive tribalism you're fighting with this clown is exactly why I think this "country" might as well be dissolved: far too many Nigerians at all levels of power allow tribal resentment to overrule their thinking faculties, resulting in all sorts of illogical policies, from a main refinery being located in Kaduna rather than in the ND where logic dictates, to SE senators keeping quiet as the 2nd River Niger bridge budget is slashed, to over a billion dollars being spent connecting Abuja to Kaduna even while neglecting the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the country's main route for imports and exports. The thinking with too many Nigerians is never about whether a thing will benefit everyone or not, but whether another tribe they fear, hate or envy might benefit more than their own, in which case they would rather everyone suffer together, like the buffoon you're responding to.

Maybe if Nigeria breaks up, people will stop allowing such ridiculous considerations to govern their decision-making, once they no longer have other tribes to blame for making self-destructive choices.

Blue3k:


Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/236915-constitutional-amendment-federal-land-registry-land-use-act-must-disbanded-ambode.html

Lagos and yoruba people have no good idea when it comes to land act issues.
Nothing can change their behavior of ome-ni-le and agbaro................. This is the major problem of yoruba tribe. it wil be difficult to cure the cancer in yoruba land.

They will build estate for rent and stay in a poor house.

omohayek:
While I agree with Ambode that the Land Use Act needs to go, I strongly disagree with his suggested replacement. Why should the state governors, using the legislatures they control, be given even more freedom to act like mini-dictators?

What needs to replace the Land Use Act is to make clear and easy provision for individuals to acquire perpetual title to land, and to then dispose of said land as they please, whether by sale, gifting it or whatever. It should be made much harder for politicians to interfere with individual property rights except where eminent domain clearly applies, and een then individuals should be entitled to receive fair market value (as assessed by an agency independent from the government) for the land taken from them.

Of course, all of the above is what one would wish for in a sane country whose leaders are actually serious about making the citizens lives better, rather than merely searching for new opportunities to steal. As such I don't expect any governors, senators or house members to come forward in favor of individual land rights.

It's 100 times better for my state governor to control my land, than to allow someone I don't know sitting in abuja to control it and behave like God Zeus.

rightwingz:


[s]Lagos and yoruba people have no good idea when it comes to land act issues.[/s]
Nothing can change their behavior of ome-ni-le and agbaro................. This is the major problem of yoruba tribe. it wil be difficult to cure the cancer in yoruba land.

They will build estate for rent and stay in a poor house.

My guy I have to strike that from record. The two guys that knocked the issue out of the park are Yoruba. They laid out the policy for forum to understand in clear coherent manner.

Blue3k:


My guy I have to strike that from record. The two guys that knocked the issue out of the park are Yoruba. They laid out the policy for forum to understand in clear coherent manner. I do agree with you on tribalism being a major stumbling block. I doubt disintegration with make a tribalist stop being a hater.

Look at how a paticiluar Anambra Igbo considers other wawa Igbos inferior. This tells me people may just start fighting over little tribal difference.

my friend, i am not an igbo..... Let us address the issue of Imo-ni-le and agboro in a civilized city like Lagos. This is a big shame.

rightwingz:


my friend, i am not an igbo..... Let us address the issue of Imo-ni-le and agboro in a civilized city like Lagos. This is a big shame.

The other response was for someone else. I already said my piece about their policy. It's better they regulate and individuals hold land and mineral. His position was good in few areas though. I don't care much about anyone's investing habits.

omohayek:

Maybe if Nigeria breaks up, people will stop allowing such ridiculous considerations to govern their decision-making, once they no longer have other tribes to blame for making self-destructive choices.

I do agree with you on tribalism being a major stumbling block. I doubt disintegration with make a tribalist stop being a hater. Look at how a paticiluar Anambra Igbo considers other wawa Igbos inferior. This tells me people may just start fighting over little tribal differences.

Blue3k:


It's not. If local government doesn't have fiscal automony we will create a situation where state government are mini dictators. Power needs to be devolved as low as possible. State government already exert too much power over day to day creating inefficient service delivery.

If you look Alot of state government are against giving LGAs automony. They steal their allocation, usurp responsibility, and leave them useless.



I bolded important sections for lazy people like yourself. You can read that and have something useful to say. Lastly the smart guys have spoken on issue read and understand. Trust me the topics is super important if you care about restructuring and individual rights vs creating Emperor governors.

ur royal highness such a pleasure 2 meet u.u are d most hardworking guy on d planet, a great mind without compare.in fact ur mind works so hard that am sure u haven't had a meal in d last 72 hours.amazing guy u are.I love u so much.could u kindly in ur characteristical hardworking nature enlighten me more on restructuring and individual rights?I will really love 2 learn at ur feet

lexy2014:
ur royal highness such a pleasure 2 meet u.u are d most hardworking guy on d planet, a great mind of without compare.in fact ur mind works so hard that am u haven't had a meal in d last 72 hours.amazing guy u are.I love u so much.could u kindly in ur characteristical hardworking nature enlighten me more on restructuring and individual rights?I will really love 2 learn at ur feet

Your welcome just remember to download text reader app. I recommend @voicealoud on android devices. Save your energy and just listen to article. It helps when you're too lazy to read. I don't read most of the articles since I got app. A lot of nairalanders to lazy to read so I know it would help yall.

Blue3k:


Your welcome just remember to download text reader app. I recommend @voicealoud on android devices. Save your energy and just listen to article. It helps when you're too lazy to read. I don't read most of the articles since I got app.

so u don't read? u aren't even better than me maybe even lazier.hahahahaha....my hero u just fall my hand.so 4 how long have u been using d laziness helping app?

omohayek:

The sort of primitive tribalism you're fighting with this clown is exactly why I think this "country" might as well be dissolved: far too many Nigerians at all levels of power allow tribal resentment to overrule their thinking faculties, resulting in all sorts of illogical policies, from a main refinery being located in Kaduna rather than in the ND where logic dictates, to SE senators keeping quiet as the 2nd River Niger bridge budget is slashed, to over a billion dollars being spent connecting Abuja to Kaduna even while neglecting the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the country's main route for imports and exports. The thinking with too many Nigerians is never about whether a thing will benefit everyone or not, but whether another tribe they fear, hate or envy might benefit more than their own, in which case they would rather everyone suffer together, like the buffoon you're responding to.

Maybe if Nigeria breaks up, people will stop allowing such ridiculous considerations to govern their decision-making, once they no longer have other tribes to blame for making self-destructive choices.

I have said it many times NIGERIA AS A COUNTRY CANNOT PROSPER. UNTIL YOU BALKANIZE IT - YOU JUST WASTING YOUR TIME.