The Kwara State Government is poised to partner with Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), Kwara Chapter, with the aim of preventing members from contravening the set standard of building construction, to avoid incessant collapse of buildings in the state.
The Executive Chairman, Kwara State Geographic Information Service, ESV Abdulkareem Babatunde Sulyman said this in Ilorin, while playing host to the Chairman and members of Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, in his GRA office, Ilorin, the State Capital.
According to Sulyman, the contravention include; non compliance with government approved plan, encroachment on service areas reserved for infrastructure and selling of lands not properly registered among others.
“In view of this the Agency will be ready to collaborate with any Association willing to contribute to the development plan of Mallam AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq led Administration. We are therefore partners in progress at providing housing units to the people of Kwara State He added.
Sulyman thereafter assured the Association of KW-GIS support, by ensuring that appropriate sanctions are effected on those not complying with the development of Ilorin New Master Plan.
Earlier, the State Chairman, Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, Mr Kamar Abioye, explained that they came to familiarize themselves with the Agency, in order to enhance a robust and fantastic Estate Development in the State.
Mr Abioye therefore solicited for a strong synergy with the State Geographic Information Service, in phasing out quacks, adding that, the Association would forward the full list of registered members to the Agency in due course, for easy identification and disciplinary actions against erring members.
While appealing to the Executive Chairman to consider partnering with the Real Estate Developers, especially now that the State Government is embarking on SmartCity Estate, along Oko olowo Ilorin, for professional touches.
In their separate contributions, the State Surveyor General, Surveyor Ibrahim Mohammed and Director, Land Services, Esv Abdulwahab Abdulrahaman, maintained that the Association needs to work in synergy with the Agency, to ensure building specification is being followed and professional standard maintained.
ROYAL NEWS reports that those in attendance were: the Administrative Secretary of the Agency, Mrs Motunrayo Adaran, Director, Urban and Regional Planning, Tpl Awolola Ademola and Agency’s Legal Adviser, Mrs Omolara Olubiyi among other principal officers of the Agency.
