It's Unfair of FG to sell Balewa Square - Fashola

Governor Raji Fashola of Lagos
State yesterday alleged the Federal Government of treating the state in an unfair manner by selling lands
acquired for public use to private individuals.
Fashola said this while speaking at the launch of two books titled
‘Contemporary State land matters in Nigeria: A case study of Lagos State (second edition)’ and ‘In her own right: Abimbola Fashola’

The governor stated that rather than the Federal government returning the
land to the owners, it has continued to sell them to individuals who use for commercial
purposes.
According to him, “I think that we have received the short end of the stick as a people. Lagos is one of the many few states bounded by lagoon and ocean on the side. But yet that is the place that I think has been treated most unfairly by the
central government.

“The central government took over Tafawa Balewa Square, in Lagos Island axis of the state, of which it is a manager and not landlord. The
land where the edifice was built belongs to Lagos. It was originally crown land. It was given to the central government to manage. And it is alarming that the manager has started selling land left in its care.

“And I have told all those that they sold them to that they bought nothing. The seller has no
document to offer. And I have told those who bought it to go and collect their money back from
the seller.