Tuesday 15 January 2013

‘Obasanjo’s lust for farmlands informed Land Use Act’ – Bakare


Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s “greed for farmlands” propelled him to introduce the Land Use Decree (1978), now an Act of Parliament, the Convener, Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said.
He made the remark in Lagos yesterday at the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) round table to mark 1st anniversary of “Occupy Nigeria” movement, saying the Land Use Act is an evil act that must be repealed without delay if Nigeria’s economy must grow.
Pastor Bakare also at the event questioned President Goodluck Jonathan’s sincerity in institutionalising the rule of law in Nigeria.
He said Jonathan benefited from the SNG protests which compelled the National Assembly to pass a resolution that made him acting president when the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was ill and bedridden in Saudi Arabia.  But President Jonathan failed to build on the same tradition to insist on same treatment in Taraba, Enugu and Cross River states where their governors have vacated officers for months on health ground.
He said SNG is demanding that the deputy governors in the three states be allowed to act as governors pending when the governors would return from their medical vacation or else the SNG would publicly protest the illegality.
NigeriaIntel

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