Inauguration of Bureau of Records

Also in a related development, the Executive Chairman of Oshimili North Local Government Area, Hon. Innocent Esewezie today inaugurated the ONLGA Bureau for Land Records as contained in the Oshimili North LGA Public and Private Properties Protection Byelaw 2023 with the following persons;

Comrade Austin Ajufo (SLG) – Chairman

Mrs Stella Jones-Ofunne (HPM) – Member

Mr. Sunny Ubaka – Member

Mr. Emma Okafor – Member

Mr. Emmanuel Itoje – Member

Barr. Ifeanyi Nwaezigwe – Member

Mr. Okwechime Innocent – Member

Amb. Patrick Ikebuwa – Member

The Bureau is Charged with the following terms of Reference:

i. Create and maintain a Register of all members of the Traditional Heads, Onu Otus, and/or the Executive Committees of every Community within the local Government so designated to act by the appropriate authority in the said community.

ii. Create and maintain a Register of all heads, and principal members of every major family or community within the local government, provided that such families or communities are recognized by the Local Government and can be verifiable by the appropriate traditional authority.

iii. Carry out a periodic update of both Registers every two years to always conform with the present reality, by demanding for and receiving any changes in status quo from the secretaries of the Executive Committees of every Community or major families and communities within the local Government within 14 days of the occurrence of said changes.

iv. Enforce the registration within two weeks of the first payment of purchase price or rent of all rural lands in the local government acquired or leased/rented by purchasers and developers from the appropriate vendor families and/or communities and facilitate the issuance of a Customary Certificate of Occupancy or Instrument of Consent by the Executive Chairman.

v. Enforce the registration of all urban lands not in rural areas in the local government acquired or leased/rented by purchasers and developers from the appropriate vendor families and/or communities by sending verification reports of each acquisition within urban areas in the local government to the office of the Director of Lands, Delta State Ministry of Lands and Surveys, Asaba for capture and tracking purposes.

vi. Give recommendation on any person, including a corporate entity, who contravenes the provisions of sub-sections (iv) and (v) of this section

vii. Ensure that any person, including a corporate entity, who seeks to, or actively take possession of any property in the Local Government in order to carry out any activity on such property without a properly executed Land Instrument registered in consonance with the provisions of this bye-law commits an offence and shall be liable for prosecution at the instance of the Bureau