Ogun State House of Assembly’s Committee on Justice, Ethics and Public Petition has urged the Ministry of Justice to tackle land grabbers.
The committee also advised the ministry to implement the state’s anti-land grabbing law to reduce incessant killings and invasion of land by land grabbers.
Mr. Solomon Osho, the committee’s chairman, spoke yesterday in Abeokuta when the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwasina Ogungbade, visited him.
Speaking against the backdrop of on-going budget performance assessment for the first quarter of 2022, Osho decried the slow pace of prosecution of land grabbers.
He said there was the need to ensure enforcement of the anti-land grabbing law to stop the upsurge in land grabbing cases.
Osho challenged the ministry on the need to find a workable means of decongesting prisons across the state.
Ogungbade assured the lawmakers of proper enforcement of all legislations in the state.
He said there was also the need to further sensitise the public on the need to report land-related disputes to law enforcement agencies for prosecution.
The commissioner noted that the recent release of more than 100 inmates from custody was facilitated by the Office of Public Defender, either through bail or striking out of cases in which trials could neither begin nor proceed.