By: Admin
The Delta State government has commenced a move to digitalise land acquisition processes to check fraudulent activities in the State.
The state commissioner of Land for Urban Renewal, Mr Michael Anoka Ifeanyi, stated this in an interview in Asaba, Delta State while responding to allegation made by some town planning consultants against the ministry on Tuesda “Our major challenge in this ministry is fraud, so, the Ministry has put measures in place to checkmate the fraud in the system.
“One of the measures put in place is by coding, We are trying to digitize the approval process, so that we can identify the particular APO that gives approval for plan. he said
“The Ministry was in a situation where you see the Area Operation Officer in Asaba went as far as Oghara to approve a plan, you will see APO in Abraka approving a plan in Ugheli.”
“The major problem we have is forgery in the system. Some people used a dead man (APO) stamp to approve the plan” he added
“I want to tell you that as a Commissioner I don’t give approval for a plan, neither does the permanent secretary of the ministry give approval, rather approval is done by Area operation officers. what we did is coding so that PS can be aware of such approval.”
“They are not happy with this coding. We believe with the aide of digitization, it will reduce fraud and shape practicing in the state, we are having a lot of complaints from the public regarding the plan.” the statement concluded
