SaharaReporters earlier reported that the residents lamented that LAMATA wanted to forcefully take their land and houses for their (LAMATA) project in Ogun State with compensation not even enough to be used to rent a house.
Residents of Agbado Oke Aro community in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State have raised a Save Our Soul alarm, saying that a Lagos State parastatal, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has vowed to take their land by force.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that the residents lamented that LAMATA wanted to forcefully take their land and houses for their (LAMATA) project in Ogun State with compensation not even enough to be used to rent a house.
According to the community, on July 22, 2021, the Ogun State Ministry of Transportation invited the Agbado Oke Aro stakeholders forum, which is the official group representing the Constituency II Ifo for a meeting in their office.
It was at the meeting that the community was informed of LAMATA'S intention to extend the Railway service to Agbado. They were urged to cooperate and that LAMATA provided for some benefits in terms of infrastructure facilities to the community.
They were assured that the affected property owners would be adequately given due compensation, "but to our dismay, LAMATA came into the community and served acquisition/removal notice without informing the Ogun State through their consultant, Global Impact Consulting led by Engr. B. Osho.
"With this, we wrote a petition to the Ogun State Ministry of Transportation, Physical Planning, Land Bureau and copied LAMATA in December 2021, after which a meeting was convened again at the Ogun State Ministry of Transportation conference room with the Hon. commissioners of other agencies before agreeing to hold a stakeholders meeting by LAMATA."
Here is the full petition.
