Ogun Land Bureau assures Home Owner Applicants on titled documents, to generate over N42bn

Ogun State Government has assured applicants who sought for land title documents under the Home Owners Charter Scheme of the continuity of the programme as more applications are currently being considered under the recently launched Land Administration & Revenue Management System (OLARMS).

This is just as the Bureau planned to generate over N42.807bn in the next fiscal year.

The Special Adviser and Director General, Bureau of Lands and Survey in the State, Mr. Aina Salami, gave the assurance while defending the Bureau’s budget estimate before the members of the State House of Assembly at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. 

Salami explained that OLARMS was a digital platform created by the present administration to ease the administrative bottlenecks being encountered by applicants in the process of registering property, obtaining government permits, as government had established a single registry for all land-related transactions.

Positing that Government remained continuum, Salami stressed that over 3,000 title documents had been issued to property owners under the Home Owner’s Scheme, while 

the release of another batch of over 2,000 was underway.

He promised that the OLARMS platform was designed with user interface to effectively restructure registration, inspection, payment of assessment fees and seamless issuance of Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) for all categories of structures.

Defending the Bureau’s budget proposal for next year, Salami intimated the lawmakers that the Bureau proposed a total expenditure of N955.4m consisting of N425.8m for capital projects, with the remaining N529.6m for recurrent expenditure.

On its over N42bn planned revenue, the Special Adviser said the revenue would be sourced from certificate of occupancy/ratification, plot allocation/layout fees and rent on government land amongst others. 

Responding, the lawmakers in their respective remarks tasked the bureau to ensure the immediate distribution of pending title documents under the home owner charter to applicants within record time. 

In related development, the State Commissioner for Housing, Jagunmolu Omoniyi presented a total budget size of N3.288bn for the development and actualization of  housing need of the people in the State. 

Giving a breakdown, the Commissioner disclosed that N88.02m would cater for recurrent expenditure and N3.199bn would go for the various capital projects, while N3bn was expected as revenue for the next fiscal year. 

The lawmakers also considered the budget proposals of the Ministry of Community Development and Cooperatives, Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development and the State Housing Corporation amongst others.

Ogun to expend over N62.438bn on agro- cargo airport, road construction

Ogun State Government through its Ministry of Works and Infrastructure says it plans to spend the sum of N62.438bn for its various capital projects out of which N62.257bn was meant for reconstruction of agro-cargo airport, inter/intra city, rural and industrial area roads as well as bridges across the State. 

The State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ade Akinsanya disclosed this while taking turn to defend the Ministry’s 2022 budget proposal before the State lawmakers at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

Akinsanya added that the objective of the budget was to initiate new road projects in addition to the timely completion of all ongoing roads across the State as well as river crossing and overhead bridges. 

He stressed that the next year budget would cater for the rehabilitation/reconstruction of 42.5km township road, reconstruction of 60km rural and 15km Industrial roads, while another 60km of chemical treated roads would be constructed alongside 50km inter/intra cities roads amongst others. 

In a related development, the General Manager, State Public Works Agency, Engr. Gbenga Akintola has affirmed that the agency was irrevocably committed to sustainable road maintenance and management to aid the State industrialization policy. 

To achieve the foregoing, Akintola disclosed that the agency had proposed a sum N853.9m as its total budget for the next fiscal year, this consisted of N750m for capital projects, while N103m would go for recurrent expenditure.

He explained that sectional rehabilitation of roads across the State would gulp N750m in the next fiscal year. 

The lawmakers also considered the budget of the State Ministry of Rural Development, Bureau of Electrical Engineering Services and State Water Corporation amongst others .