By DAVID ADEOYE

The Oyo State Government has begun the verification of titles of 900 property owners whose lands were acquired for the Ibadan Circular Road construction, and names omitted among those due for compensation.

Mr Sunday Odukoya, the Chairman of the Monitoring Committee for Payment of Compensation to Affected Property Owners on the First Phase of the Project, made this known on Monday in Ibadan.

Odukoya said the fresh verification exercise would strictly capture only the 900 individuals within the corridor of the first phase of the project whose names were omitted during the initial compensation exercise.

He recalled that the state government, on April 22, approved the sum of N5.8 billion as compensation to another tranche of property owners affected by the road project, in addition to earlier compensation paid to hundreds of affected property owners.

Odukoya directed the affected property owners who were omitted in the prior compensation exercise to go to the Ministry of Lands, at the state secretariat Agodi, Ibadan, to check for their names from Monday.

The committee chairman said that the affected persons should bring along the following documents; Local Government identification letter/residence permit for non-indigenes of the state and survey plan of the property/farmland.

Other documents include: drawings of the property plan/farmland; photograph of the property plan/farmland; land purchase agreement and sworn affidavit from Court/ Ministry of Justice; Letter of Power of Attorney from the Ministry of Justice (for proxy purposes) and five current passport photographs of claimants.

Other required documents are: National Identification Number (NIN) of claimants; five passport photographs of the guarantor/surety; guarantor’s/ surety’s means of Identification (NIN); bank details of claimants including name, bank and account number and phone number.

The committee chairman urged the intending claimants to bring along other documents as may be determined necessary by the monitoring team as well as a letter of recommendation from the landlord association in the affected axis. (NAN)