hmm@Ebedi
I would like to share my personal experience on this topic.
I bought a plot of land at Abijo GRA, Lekki from Lagos State Government in 2002 at a cost on NGN 1.5M. We were asked to the total cost within 90 days. I eventually pay the total cost within 30 days. When I applied for C of O in 2004, I was told that the people at Alausa made a mistake in selling the land at a cost of NGN 1.5M. I was told the cost was supposed to be NGN 5M. My land has now been re-alloacted to someone else. The same thing happened to my friend.
My lawyer wrote to them sometime this year. I was asked to come and pay the balance of NGN 3.5M. It is ridiculous. It is even riskier buying land from the Government than the so called 'Omo onile'.\
Ebedi, your story is a little bit weird to me, because after you bought the property in 2002 from the government, you didnt state the documents you were given by the people or government who sold it to you.
Did you get
1. a purchase reciept?
2.A letter of allocation
3. Did you do any search on the property before buying it?
4. Did you attempt to perfect the title of your property after buying it?
Because if you got some form of documentation from the government that you bought the land from them, they ought to have issued you a reciept as proof of purchase and that reciept holds water over any new laws or prices given to you. And with that receipt or letter of allocation, your property can not be relocated to another person without government compensation.
There must be something really wrong in this story and i strongly believe you didnt use a lawyer to do the initial search and investigation before you bought the property because if you did, it is that same lawyer that can fight them tooth and nail to make sure this kind of injustice happens.
If you used a third party or omonile, then, !!!
I dont know what to say again
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