The illegal occupants of Delta State government landed properties around the Dennis Osadebay University in Asaba the Delta State Capital have been issued demolition notice.
He gave the demolition notice during an inspection exercise flanked by members of the committee.
He warned that government would no longer tolerate illegal structures built on government lands by land speculators.
Areas visited by the Committee include 74 Road, Musa Camp and Dennis Osadebay University, Anwai-Asaba.
Chief Omare stressed that, as a responsible administration, the state government had given enough notice to illegal developers and warned that those who have valuable items in their houses should remove them before the demolition exercise begins.
He said that the committee had carried out enough enlightenment Campaign, on the need for land speculators to stop deceiving investors to acquire lands belonging to the Delta state government.
The Chairman of the land recovery committee, advised investors on appropriate enquiries before buying land, warning that ignorance was not an excuse stressing that most of the aforementioned lands does not have
Certificate of Occupancy (Cof O).
He noted that the exercise will also be carried out wherever government lands have been encroached on across the 25 local government areas of the state and stressed the need for members of the public to desist from encroaching into government landed properties
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Ben Oghojafor debunked accusations of the university selling land to developers at Musa Camp and pledged the institution’s support assist the land recovery Committee .
Earlier, some protesters from the Iyase and Onishe families of Asaba stormed Government House, Asaba, to state their own part of the land dispute.
Spokesmen of the group appealed to the government to allow them repossess part of their family land which they acquired from their forefathers in 1954, stressing that demolishing the areas already built up would render them homeless.
The Chief of Staff, Government House, Hon Johnson Erijo, who received them, thanked them for the peaceful protest, assuring that their request would be channelled to the Governor for prompt action.
He said government was committed to ensuring that illegal acquisition of land was not tolerated, in addition to ensuring that communities had access to their legitimate land.
Addressing the Committee during a visit to the Nsopi area, a representative of the community, Mr Ikemefuna Akpoku, thanked Governor Sheriff Oborevwori for constituting a formidable team to recover all land belonging to the Dennis Osadebay University being encroached upon by land speculators.
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