Founder,
Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has attacked Nigeria’s Lagos
State Government for collecting N72 million from him for change of
ownership of a parcel of land he bought from the Power Holding Company
of Nigeria, PHCN.
Bakare, who spoke in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria,
said he bought the parcel of land from PHCN to build a residential
estate to make more people own their houses, saying he was shocked when
the state government asked him to pay N72 million.
He said after paying the money, the government was yet to release documents of the transaction to him.
The
preacher stated that such money was unnecessary as he had already paid
for the land and that this was one of the evils brought about by the
Land Use Act, LUA, which he said should be repealed.
“The Land Use
Act is the enemy of progress in our country. Due to greed for land,
they imposed it in our constitution and they are smiling to the bank
every day. Citizens are not having access to land or they will pay
through their nose.
“Even the Certificate of Ownership, whatever
Lagos State Government calls it, it happened to me as a person. I bought
a land from PHCN to develop real estate because Lagos State cried out
that more houses and needed for people.
“After getting the C of O
from PHCN, Lagos State says I have to obtain their documents and charged
me N72 million extra on that parcel of land. Then you now enact a
useless law asking that in a democracy, a tenant must pay one year rent
maximum,” he said.
According to Bakare, “so, if I go to the bank
to borrow for 23 percent and I had to pay back the money either through
sale or rent, how do I realise it? You can see that nothing here seems
to have value. We make laws without considering the needs of the
people.”
Bakare said laws were being formulated in the country without having the interest of the masses in mind.
“Not
all government’s laws are bad, Nigerians must rise to take their
destiny in their own hand, reject an oppressive government, reject the
1999 constitution, if not this constitution will kill the nation,” he
added.
Bakare also said it’s unfortunate that the nation has inept
leadership, adding that “we have people who are promoted beyond their
mental capacity operating in corridors of power. So, the worst of us are
presiding over the best of us. It is shame on our nation.
PMNews
—Kazeem Ugbodaga
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