Edo State Commissioner of Ministry of Physical Planning, Urban and Regional Development, Isoken Omo, yesterday, said her ministry has visited 20, 294 properties, talked to 81,000 persons and sealed off 50 properties within two months for violating the state’s master plan.

She disclosed this in Benin City during a meeting with Real Estate Developers.

Hon. Omo said the visit of the local government areas was to gather data to enable government plan the state for the benefit of its citizens.

“This is the data we have gathered so far in the past two months. We have visited two local governments already, Oredo and part of Ikpoba Okha.

“And also parts of Oredo but not finished. We have visited six communities apart from the commercial areas because we don’t classify commercial areas as communities.

“We have talked to about 81,000 people in different fora. We have visited 20,294 property in that time and we have also sealed about 50 property in that time, we also have other data of property to be demolished but I can’t bring it here, just to tell you the magnitude of what can happen in two months. So, if you have to estimate based on this, if we continue this to the end of the year, we will cover the whole of Edo State easily”, she said.

Omo said from the ministry’s findings, those who said that they are into real estate have not gotten approval from the state government.

The commissioner said the real estate developers have also failed to engage professionals in their dealings thereby endangering the lives of the people who would live in the estate.

She explained that some of the properties sealed by her ministry posed threat to inhabitants of the area.

“One of the houses we sealed, was a mould house and we saw them casting a slab on top of it, taking it up.

“Another we sealed, two hotels on two sides of the road, the owner of the hotels put a bridge across the road so that his people can be working on the other side of the hotel.

“Another place we sealed, is residential, the person without approval started excavating to build a shopping mall, no approval no nothing, we sealed it.

“Anybody who go against government’s plans, there is a process to sealing. There are things that are immediate sealing and it is going to be a threat and it is likely to collapse, we will seal it”, she said.

She asked them to err in the side of caution rather than that of the law just as she warned thus “don’t go near Okoro-Oroma, Obagie, Obayantor, on this side.

” So, if you are on Iriri road, where Iriri road hits the Ogheghe road, you know of this, all the lands from the army check points all of them belong to the government”.

She gave real estate developers two months to regularize their operations with the state government and failure to do so would be met with the full wrath of the law.

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