By Agboola Bayo
Osun state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has paid N813million as compensation including palliatives to property owners and traders affected in the ongoing infrastructural development in the state.
The Commissioner for Lands, Physical Planning and Urban Development, Muyiwa Ige, stated this during an interactive session with members of the NUJ Correspondents Chapel in Oyo state.
The Commissioner hinted that the compensation were paid to 295 shop occupiers and tenants at the Train Station corridors, 581 shop owners as well as some settlers at the Airport landed property owners.
Speaking further, the commissioner said plans were to ensure payment of the balance of N2 billion compensations to the remaining owners of affected property across the state.
He said the Ogbeni Aregbesola-led administration resolved that a minimum of N100, 000 palliatives be extended to the affected tenants and shops occupiers to enable them relocate, stressing that “the government believed that once they are affected, the businesses would affect their livelihood.”
On the August 9 governorship election in Osun state, Muyiwa Ige said the opposition had nothing to offer, adding that “the only thing they have been boasting about is that they are coming with the Federal might to harass the people.”
He urged the people not to feel threatened, but to exercise their franchise at their respective polling centres on the Election Day and that with the warning that they should not sell their permanent voters card to anyone however influential.