The Kogi State government through the Land and Housing Services Bureau has acquired automated Certificate of Occupancy Machine in order to curtail the incidence of racketeering and unlawful grabbing of land, delay in the issuance of the certificate of occupancy.
At the unveiling of the machine in the Governor’s office on Friday, Governor Yahaya Bello,commended the Bureau for ensuring that his administration’s policy in the area of land reform was yielding result.
Earlier, the Director-General, Land and Housing Services Bureau, Hajia Mariam Ladi Ibrahim commended Governor Yahaya Bello for the genuine reform the Bureau has witnessed under his leadership.
Hajia Mariam noted that under the last administrations, about a thousand certificates were properly issued to landowners stressing that the current administration has signed five hundred certificates while an additional six hundred were ready for signing.
She also noted that with the Automated machine, issues of fake C of O, land racketeering would be check.
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