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By Tunji Faleye
(Lagos, Nigeria) Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode promised on Thursday that
more communities would receive compensations for forfeiting their lands to Lagos
Free Trade Zone project.
Speaking after he approved a total sum of N740,461,432.00 as
compensation for host communities of Parcel B comprising Yegunda, Abomiti and
International Airport site of the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ), the governor
stated that the communities involved will be compensated in due course at the
end of ongoing verification and valuation exercise.
It will also be recalled that the host communities of the 3,000
hectares of land housing the LFTZ Development Agency, a company jointly owned
by the State Government and a consortium of Chinese investors, were heavily
compensated.
Similarly, the sum of N65 million was paid early this year to land
owners affected by the ongoing Dangote projects which included petrochemical
plant, gas project, fertilizer and refinery project capable of refining 650,000
barrels of oil per day.
All these gesture, according to the State’s Commissioner for
Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Prince Rotimi Ogunleye who announced the
governor’s approval at a media briefing held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre
in Alausa, is in line with the commitment of the Ambode administration to
engender sustainable cordial relationship between the host communities and
investors in the LFTZ.
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