We Demolished Old Peoples Home Because Of This – Kwara State Govt Reveals

The Committee on the Review of offers of Kwara Government property from 1999 to date has proclaimed that there is no verification of installment or Right of Occupancy on the spread of land where late Dr Olusola Saraki fabricated his Ile Arugbo (old people groups home) in Ilorin.

Sen. Makanjuola Ajadi, the Chairman of the advisory group, revealed this in Ilorin while preparation newsmen on the discussion encompassing government’s recovery of the Ile Arugbo land.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the structure on the land inverse late Dr Olusola Saraki’s home in Ilorin was recovered by the legislature while the structure on it, known as “Ile arugbo” (Old people groups home) was crushed.

“The consideration of the Committee on the Review of Sales of Kwara State Government Properties from 1999 to Date has been attracted to the different distributions on the choice of government in regard of the land reserved for the development of the State Secretariat (presently regularly alluded to as Ile Arugbo).

“The issue of the land being referred to went under the terms of reference of the board which thought about a few different properties of government and presented its suggestions in July, 2019.

“Just like the case with every one of the properties investigated by the Committee, the board of trustees’ proposals depend carefully on accessible records.

“In view of the accessible records, the Committee didn’t see evidence of any installment nor an endorsed Right of Occupancy,” Ajadi said.

As indicated by him, the panel found that there is establishment on the land with raised sections at different regions of the bigger fragment of the land.

“The Committee likewise noticed that the land being referred to was additionally a piece of a bigger package of land, some portion of which has been formed into a Civil Service Clinic and Secretariat complex currently lodging the State Ministry of Finance, among others.

“With accentuation, from all records accessible, there is no “Right of Occupancy” or Certificate of Occupancy” accessible to the private firm which the land was distributed on a basic level.

“There is likewise no application nor receipt of installments for the land. Where, along these lines, is the privilege to a case to this land?”

He included that based existing show, land put aside by Government for explicit open use ought not be changed over to private use.

“In perspective on the above reasons, the Committee is persuaded to prescribe that the land be repossessed and put to the first use it was intended for,” the board executive said.

Ajadi noticed that the utilization of ‘Ile arugbo’ to depict the land being referred to gave an incorrect impression of an organized structure where elderly individuals were provided food for, including “this isn’t so”.

“What is on ground until the physical recovery by government was a shed utilized by the late Dr Abubakar Olusola Saraki to keep individuals holding on to see him for political gatherings.

“Basically, the house manufactured and lived by the late Dr Olusola Saraki is unblemished, not contacted or obliterated by the Kwara State Government,” Ajadi pushed.

He portrayed it as silly putting a political get-together spot close to a facility.

“A medical clinic should be a tranquil domain for welfare of patients; it is unquestionably not a political war focus where individuals make the most intense clamor, battle, or ended up enmeshed in upheaval and lethal rush which was the part of that spot,” Ajadi said.