Stop Stealing Peoples' Land, Fashola tells Nigerian Military

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has accused the military of illegally taking possession of lands in Lagos to build their formations without purchasing them or going through proper channels before acquiring such lands.

 *Gov. Fashola
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola has accused Nigerian military of taking over lands in Lagos forcefully without going through the normal process.

Fashola made this declaration on on Wednesday at the State House, Ikeja, when he received the new Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin.

In his words: “We have some local challenges, as I said, they are not navy. Military officers get into our lands, and locate military zones there. The land that they did not buy from us, lands that are not allocated to them, put their officers there and threaten everybody. That is not the way to go about acquiring land,” he lamented.

The governor said military officers should desist from such acts, saying that in as much as they were part of the society, they had to pay for the land they acquired.

“If anyone wants land, they have to apply for it; they have to pay for it. In as much as military officers have their code of conduct within their barracks, they are equally members of our community and they are subject to the laws of the state,” he said.