This is a true story of a customer we served in 2021. Himself and his friend were going to acquire about 2 acres out of over 50 said to belong to a certain family. We engaged our usual team of surveyors and legal adviser to check the Bureau of Lands and Surveyor General's registries.

We found that the land was committed to a particular company in that Ibeju axis. Now the interesting thing here is that many people had already subscribed and my client felt I was denying him something good. He didn't buy but he had a lot of questions (we charged him over 6 digits so you can imagine how he felt).

So here is the thing, governments acquire land via the state government as they are authorised through the Land Use Act. They acquire lands and designate specific purposes to them, and gazette these in public records, they inform Omoniles before doing this and after(and they pay them significant sums) but these indigenous settlers try to sell despite this.

In this case the land was industrial and a particular company name was already tagged which means even if my client bought it he would've needed to change the zoning rules from Industrial to residential. This is a huge problem that many will face in Ibeju with Zoning and Planning Authorities in future...

In part two I will be sharing how another person bought land from a real Estate Company in Ibeju but had to engage my lawyer to get replacement in Mowe when he ran into issues with the Lagos State Government!

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