Former Minister of Communication, Maj. Gen. Tajudeen Olanrewaju (rtd), has discredited the claim that the parcel of land on which Oriental Hotel is located along the Lekki -Epe Expressway, was a refuse dump site.

In a statement issued on Wednesday and personally signed by him, Olanrewaju insisted that the assertion by the Presidential campaign team of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was not a true reflection of the entire stretch of the landscape.

It would be recalled that the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in a documentary packaged by his campaign team, capturing his achievements as Lagos State Governor, said, “I brought private investors, hospitality- they created the boat club, the Civic Center that is of great value to many people today-that was a refuse dump.

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“Nobody would easily remember that Oriental Hotel was a refuse dump— a mile of refuse along that corridor. It took several months of escalating and a great investment for those investors to take the risk. The majority of those assets they claim are mine are not mine.”

In the statement which was made available to newsmen in Lagos, the ex-military officer said, “I will not indulge myself in the ownership of the Oriental Hotel located along the Lekki Road axis.

“But it would be of interest to the public that the part of the land upon which the property is located was allocated to a company called Kembu by the federal government.

“The Lekki Corridor, which has lately been described as a shoreline of a waste dump in a documentary released in a documentary by a Presidential Campaign Team is not a true reflection of the entire stretch of the landscape.

“I acknowledge an intimate relationship with this company. I’m still in possession of the Certificate of Occupancy issued to Kembu by the federal government.

“It is the lack of respect for the law by the Lagos State authority that deprived Kembu of the property. It is simply a land grab.

“It is a law long gazetted by the federal government that, 100 meters to the shoreline is a federally controlled asset. This still subsists.”

He explained further that the Maroko land improvement Scheme was a project started and completed by Brig. Gen. Raji Rasaki and further improved by Military Administrators who took control of the State after his administration.

According to him, it was the first civilian governor of the state, late Lateef Jakande, who had actually opened up the Lekki peninsula “when he broke through the forests and the swamps with his road-building crew, erecting first class roads from Ozumba Mbadiwe to the fringes of Epe, thereby opening up the Eastern corridor of Lagos state. Gbolahan Mudashiru, the military Administrator who succeeded him, pushed the construction to Epe.

“Of course, as the governor of the State from 1999 to 2007, the Administration of Ahmed Bola Tinubu added one lane to the existing two and erected a toll gate to generate revenues.

“The general upgrades that attend the continuous service improvement on the Lekki & Eastern Corridor is a combined effort, which has evolved over time and leaders at every stage of their engagement have added value to the Lekki peninsula,” the statement read in part.

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See dem

Everything about Tinubu is fraud. Chai.

Bdh

When you see facts and truth.. they dazzle and glitter like crystals and diamond.. BAT tins will not succeed ever again in Nigeria from 2023

Who owns KEMBU?What a name.Una go use proxy to acquire properties come dey deny say no be una get am.