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The Agunbiade family, Isale-Afon, Ogbomoso, has appealed to the Oyo state government to pay compensation over its land acquired along with others’ for siting the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology LAUTECH Ogbomoso.
The family in a statement signed by her spokesman, Engr Chief Adewole Adesina and made available to newsmen asserted the old Oyo government took over the land and those of others in about the year 1990 but that up till now, no compensation had been paid the families.
The family thus urged the Governor Seyi Makinde-led government to revisit the matter moreover when it paid compensation to the Osun state government with which it jointly owned the institution until 2020. The land of Agunbiade family affected according to the statement is 400 acres.
“The Agunbiade family of Isale-Afon, Ogbomoso, is again appealing to the Oyo State Government to re-visit the issue of compensation to families who own the lands taken over for LAUTECH. For the Agunbiade family of Isale-Afon Ogbomoso, 400 acres of our land is affected. It is an ancestral land left to us by our forebears.”
The family noted that Osun state received compensation to the tune of ₦8b over the dissolution of the joint-ownership, wondering why the families whose properties were taken over could not be compensated.
They submitted that the Agunbiade family had met all conditions put forward by the Oyo state Ministry of Lands including land surveying, a formal request and list of all items on the land claiming its 400 acre land is worth ₦2b in value.
They therefore pleaded with the Oyo state’s helmsman. “We are praying and pleading that GSM pay us our dues. Some of our family members are dead since we re-energised our request for compensation. Government should not let their efforts be in vain.”
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