How to Understand the Differences between
purchasing a Land Under Government
Acquisition and a Committed Lands so as to
know which ones can be Regularized
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It is pertinent here to explain two
concepts that affect the issue of
Ratification or Regularization before I
move on and it has to do with the
differences between Owning Lands Under
Government Acquisition and Committed
Lands .

A Land under Government Acquisition is a
land acquired by the Government for its
own specific use and there are plans for
these lands in the nearest future
depending on what the Government
intends to do with the land. These lands
have been acquired for years by the
government and its at the Government’s
discretion to release those lands to people
who have illegally bought the Land from
Omoniles or not depending on if they need
to use the lands for a specific purpose or
not and if the release of those acquired
lands to the people will not disrupt any
regional or urban planning regulation.

Meanwhile A Committed Land is a land
the Government already has Plans for and
nothing in this life will make the
Government alter its mind to give up
that land. Such lands include lands
earmarked for Government estates,
Roads, Government Schemes etc. In fact
if you buy a land in a committed Area,
you’re on your own because they will
never approve the papers and if you
build a property there, it will most
certainly be demolished.

So because of these problems of land
owners who bought lands illegally from
The Dreaded Omoniles under
Government Acquisition, the Lagos state
Government decided to take an Inventory of
all unlawful structures erected in areas
under Government acquisition and endorsed
a decision that all prohibited structures
erected on Land under Government
acquisition which were not blocking roads,
drainage and not located in Committed
Areas should have the opportunity to
process their papers and be granted
building plan approvals and also assist the
Government to provide for more housing
developments for low income earners.
This decision of approving the
processing of getting their papers in
Lands under Government acquisition
gave birth to the process of Ratification
and Regularization of owning lands
within Non committed Government
Acquisition.

Today it is now known as Regularization
officially at the Land Registry at Alausa
instead of Ratification. Regularization in
other words is a process whereby illegal
owners of lands in areas under
Government acquisition that are not
Committed lands are given the
opportunity to obtain a legal title to the
land encroached or trespassed upon
from the State Government.
To simplify it, it means the process of
allocating Government Land to someone
who had previously occupied landed
property without lawful authority from
the State Government but it is subject to 7
Conditions:


1. That the property must not be situated
in a Government Scheme, Estate or
Committed area
2. The Property must be situated within
an Area that conforms to Urban and
Regional Planning Regulations and
Standard of the State.
3. The Appropriate Set back of the Land
must be observed.
4. The Appropriate distances from
drainages, Canals, NNPC pipelines, Gas
Pipelines, NEPA transformers, High
Tension Wires, Water Pipelines and
other restrictions laid down by the
Physical Planning and Town Planning.
5. The land must not fall on road
Alignment
6. The land must not fall within a
Committed Government Area
7. The Land must fall within the
Permitted Regularization Areas
These days it has been extended to areas
without development schemes/layout
plans and areas without Unplanned
Developments. Example of such areas
include: Okota, Ketu, Ikorodu, Badagry
etc.

So if you have bought a land that runs afoul
of these 7 Conditions You have yourself to
blame because you refused to do a proper
Land Search and your land will either be
revoked or the House built on it will most
certainly be demolished . So shine your
eyes before one Omonile lies to you that
he has power to sign your documents
and the right to sell lands to you in those
areas listed above and many more areas
that we dont know about yet. You will
most certainly pay Lagos state
government double the sum you used to
buy it illegally from Omoniles. Always do
land verification searches before you
part with your money illegally.



NOTICE:--For those coming across the word
OMONILE for the first time, it’s a
derogatory slang given to Land
Speculators and Grabbers who specialize
in reselling other people’s lands or
duping people off their money under the
guise of selling hereditary lands owned
by their forefathers.


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