Ambode signs anti-land grabbing bill into law

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, to stop land grabbing, yesterday signed into law, Lagos State Properties Protection Law.

By signing that law, which stipulates 21 years jail term for convicts, Ambode fulfilled his pledge of making the menace of land grabbing in Lagos a thing of the past

He also signed the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps Law, aimed at boosting security of lives and properties in all the Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas of the state.

At the ceremony attended by the Speaker Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa; the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade and other top government functionaries, Governor Ambode said the laws were central to his administration’s focus of safeguarding the lives of all residents, as well as attracting, growing investments and improving the ease of doing business in the state.

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday signed into law, Lagos State Properties Protection Law.

By signing that law, which stipulates 21 years jail term for convicts, Ambode fulfilled his pledge of making the menace of land grabbing in Lagos a thing of the past

He also signed the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps Law, aimed at boosting security of lives and properties in all the Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas of the state.

At the ceremony attended by the Speaker Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa; the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade and other top government functionaries, Governor Ambode said the laws were central to his administration’s focus of safeguarding the lives of all residents, as well as attracting, growing investments and improving the ease of doing business in the state.

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