Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode has called on Nigeria’s President- Muhammadu Buhari to disband the Presidential Taskforce Implementation Committee on the alienation of Federal Government Landed Properties.
Governor Ambode said members of the Task Force were carrying out duties against the interest of the State and the Federal Government.
The Governor’s call, VON reports, is coming in the wake of petitions over the activities of the Presidential Task Force on the alienation of Federal Government Landed Properties in Lagos.
According to him, the Task Force, whose existence and legality was still in doubt have unlawfully embarked on a brazen seizure, take over and appropriation of state and federal government properties.
“The activities of the Task Force has left in its wake a near total destruction, displacement, stoppage including unprovoked mass harassment, intimidation, molestation and denial of the original owners of the land and properties,” the Governor stressed.
Governor Ambode expressed concern that the activities of the Task Force is coming despite their knowledge of an existence of a consent judgment duly entered into by the same committee and some of the petitioners on one hand and an order of Interlocutory Injunction granted by the High Court of Lagos State, with the restraining orders widely published in newspapers.
The Governor therefore called on President Buhari to immediately disband the Task Force, so as to forestall a breakdown of law and order, stressing that their activities presently constitutes a security risk in the state.
The committee in question began its operations during the era of the former President Goodluck Jonathan.
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