The Imo state government has threatened to revoke all land allocations not developed by their allottees.
The Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Planning, Chief Ogueri Enwerem, issued the threat yesterday in Owerri in an interview with journalists.
Enwerem noted that such undeveloped plots were abound all over Owerri, and said that the government would develop them in the alternative ‘‘and put value to them’’.
He said the initiative was in line with Governor Rochas Okorocha’s Rescue Mission Agenda designed to give shelter to the less privileged.
The commissioner noted that the housing problem in Imo had been compounded by land speculators who acquired lands from government and left them undeveloped with a view to selling them when their values appreciated.
He said that the present administration would no longer tolerate such attitude from landlords in the state.