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VOL. 3, ISSUE 3 (2021)
Ekiti state property protection (anti-land grabbing) law, 2019- A trouble shooter legal master piece
Authors
E K Adetifa
Abstract
The Nigerian history is dotted with stories of crisis and violence associated with land ownership claim. The reason for this is not far-fetched as land pervasively under pins human activity. Indeed, land remains the object of competition in a number of potentially overlapping ways as an economic asset, as a connection with identity and social legitimacy and as political territory competition over land and its resources constitutes the center of the nexus between land and conflict. Land dispute may occur between individuals, between ethnic groups between communities, between nations; as witnessed between Nigeria and Cameroon over Bakassi Pennisula. Given the fact that land is a limited and multipurpose resource, there is likelihood that conflict arising from land ownership claim will remain protracted into distant future. However, in an attempt to scale down land dispute to a bearable level, governments, both at the Federal and State levels as evident in the enactment of the 1978 Land Use Act, are often constrained to put in place regulatory framework to minimize the competition over land claim. The recently enacted Ekiti State Property Protection (Anti-Land Grabbing) Law, 2019 showcases one of the legislative efforts on the part of the government to curb land conflict in Ekiti State. However, the Law has more questions to contend with than answers over land dispute in Ekiti State. This paper inter alia examined some of the salient provisions of the Law with a view to determining their applicability or otherwise in certain circumstances especially where there is rival ownership claim between the parties involved. The constitutional conflicts dwelling on the right of the Nigerian citizens to own immovable property anywhere in Nigeria which the Law ostensibly eroded was equally analytically highlighted in the paper.
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Pages:58-64
How to cite this article:
E K Adetifa "Ekiti state property protection (anti-land grabbing) law, 2019- A trouble shooter legal master piece ". International Journal of Law, Policy and Social Review, Vol 3, Issue 3, 2021, Pages 58-64
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