An aide to Nyesom Wike, Lere Olayinka, stated that if it is necessary, Wike is ready to confiscate the landed property obtained by some of his friends.<\/p>\n
While speaking on Arise Television on Friday, he noted that the minister issued a warning that any property obtained illegally will be confiscated by government.<\/p>\n
Olayinka said, \u201cA few days ago, advertisements were placed in many newspapers listing the names of those owing the government for land. There are 9,532 people who have received allocations from the government but have not paid for the lands, and their names have been published.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAmong the people named was former President Ibrahim Babangida and former Benue Governor Samuel Ortom. Ortom, a very close friend and political ally of the FCT Minister, had his name published.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat he is saying is that he will not deal with anyone based on friendship but on doing the right thing. He says that if you have legitimate land ownership, even if you are his enemy, there will be no issue. However, if you don\u2019t have legitimate ownership, even if you are his friend or wife, you will lose the land.”<\/em><\/p>\n He added, \u201cThe minister will not consider whether you are his friend or enemy; he will only consider the legitimacy of your claims.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He stated that the minister would take a drastic action against whose names were published.<\/p>\n He urged the people whose names were written down to take necessary actions and sort themselves out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An aide to Nyesom Wike, Lere Olayinka, stated that if it is necessary, Wike is ready to confiscate the landed property obtained by some of his friends. While speaking on Arise Television on Friday, he noted that the minister issued a warning that any property obtained illegally will be confiscated by government. Olayinka said, \u201cA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[2067,2066,2065],"class_list":{"0":"post-17766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-landed-property","10":"tag-lere-olayinka","11":"tag-minister-nyesom-wike"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}