By Our Reporter
The Cross River State Government has assured citizens that it will reclaim all unlawfully acquired government properties.
The assurance was given by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr. Emmanuel Ironbar, Monday, during his inspection tour of all government-owned properties within the Calabar metropolis.
According to The Beagle News Ironbar said the inspection became important because of the urgent need to ensure that all government properties still occupied by private individuals and unauthorized organizations are immediately retrieved.
“Normally at the expiration of one tenure, it is expected that public officials who served in that administration should leave and allow those in the new administration to take over and use the facilities allocated to them for the period of time they will serve in the new government.
“But what I have gone around to see is very pathetic that government properties have been sold out, it is not right because if other administrations before now had done the same, then successive governments would not have had any property to inherit,” Ironbar said.
He, however, expressed optimism that the special committees set up to review the transition report as well as that of the recovery of government properties will work toward the actualization of their objectives.
The inspection was led by some senior staff of the State Ministry of Lands and Housing.
This is coming after the Environment Cluster of the Transition Report Review Committee submitted its report to the Chairman of the Committee, Ntufam Fidelis Ugbo.
In the report signed by the Chairman, Environment Cluster, Mr. Odey Oyama urged the State Government to take over private properties within the premises of the State Water Board Limited.
See the report where the cluster alleged that the properties were apportionment in error by the Ben Ayade administration:
