Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to disband the Presidential Taskforce Implementation Committee on the alienation of Federal Government Landed Properties.
The governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Habib Aruna, said members of the task force were carrying out duties inimical to the interest of the Federal and the state governments.
He added that the call was informed by “several petitions lamenting the nefarious and reprehensible activities of members of the task force”.
The governor asserted that the task force, whose existence and legality was allegedly still in doubt has unlawfully, “embarked on a brazen seizure, take over and appropriation of state and Federal Government properties”.
The team’s activities, according to Ambode, had led to “a near total destruction, displacement, stoppage, including unprovoked mass harassment, intimidation, molestation and denial of the original owners of their land and properties”.
The governor added that the task force’s members continued to engage in illegal activities “despite their knowledge of an existence of a consent judgment duly entered into by the same committee and some of the petitioners on one hand and an order of interlocutory injunction granted by the High Court of Lagos State, with the restraining orders widely published in newspapers”.
He called on Buhari to immediately disband the team to forestall a breakdown of law and order, stressing that its activities “constitutes a security risk in the state”.
The committee began its operations during the era of the Jonathan administration.
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