Demolished land not Saraki’s ancestral home, Kwara Govt claims
NEWS DIGEST – The Kwara Government says the land reclaimed from the Saraki Family was not its ancestral home.
Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq disclosed this in a statement in Ilorin on Thursday.
“The property being reclaimed by the state government is not Saraki’s ancestral home as being portrayed in some section of the media.
Read Also:
“The Saraki’s ancestral home is in Agbaji, while the property we are talking about is in the heart of Government Reserved Area (GRA), Ilorin.
“The government position is that the land was (and still is) a public property originally meant for the construction of a secretariat, a civil service clinic and parking lots.
“However, ownership of the property was spuriously transferred to a private firm and for commercial purpose without the firm paying a kobo to government or obtaining the Certificate of Occupancy,” Ajakaye said.
According to him, what the government has done was to reclaim the land in the spirit of what it was originally meant for.
