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...In Lagos Bar Beach ownership: FG, LASG resumes quarrel Altercations between the federal and Lagos State governments resumed at the weekend over the ownership of the popular Lagos Bar Beach on Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island. Works minister, Prince Adeseye Ogunlewe, had in a national daily of Tuesday, August 24, 2004, declared that the sprawling beach belongs to the federal government. But Information and Strategy commissioner in Lagos, Dele Alake, said the minister got it all wrong. Bar Beach or any other beach, he said, couldn’t belong to the federal government since the federal authority did not acquire them in the first instance. Besides, he accused the minister of using his (Ogunlewe) position as a federal official to mortgage the heritage of Lagos, his home state. “…at the appropriate time those Lagosians like Senator Ogunlewe who are bent on utilizing their temporary positions to illegally hand over the assets of the state to the federal government will have tough questions to answer from a public they already take for granted. Apparently reminding the minister the day of reckoning was around the corner, Alake said, “We urge the minister to remember that after his tenure he is coming back to Lagos.” The commissioner likened the declaration of the minister to a ploy to restore Lagos as the federal capital territory. “To date there is only one Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria and that is in Abuja,” Alake said. Digging up historical facts he said, “It is common knowledge that all state land (including, what prior to 1960 were called Crown Lands) became vested in the governor of Lagos State when the state was created in 1967. “Besides, by virtue of the land use Act of 1978, all land comprising the territory of each state in the federation was vested in the state governor. “The only exception in the cases was land acquired by and vested in the federal government. There was no reason and it has not been the case that the Bar Beach or any other beach in Lagos was so acquired or vested in the federal government.” MORE...

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