Delta State Commissioner for Lands and Surveys, Mrs Kate Onianwa has assured of the state government’s readiness to pay compensation to owners of lands acquired for state projects.
Onianwa gave the assurance in her office in Asaba during a meeting with land owners in Ijomi community in Oghara in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State where Oghara Teaching Hospital was built and its extension.
The commissioner stated that the government was already working towards the payment of the compensation to land owners whose lands were used to build the Teaching Hospital and its extension just as she pleaded to the land owners to exercise patience with the state government.
She said that the State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa was a peaceful, considerate and a man of his word, adding that he would not do anything that would jeopardise the well-being of his people.
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She pleaded to the landowners not to close down the hospital to avoid unnecessary deaths caused by the sudden closure which would tarnish the image of such a standard hospital in the state even as she advised them not to disrupt the ongoing work in the hospital extension.
Onianwa, however, commended the group for honouring her invitation, describing them as peace-loving people.
In his remarks, the chairman of the group, Mr Enerigbe Isaac, expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s approach in handling the payment of compensation, stressing that the land owners had been subjected to suffering, abject poverty and had been rendered homeless as their properties that had been acquired by the government without compensation.
The chairman, however, commended the commissioner for her unrelenting effort in halting the crisis in Ijomi community and appealed to the commissioner to ensure that the compensation is paid soon.
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