Borno state government has automated about two hundred thousand land records in an effort to strengthen land administration and management in the state.
Executive Secretary Borno Geographic Information Service BOGIS Alhaji Adam Bababe made this known at a media briefing in Maiduguri.
Alhaji Bababe said all legacy files in the Agency have been digitized which has significantly reduced cases of land scandals and racketeering.
“We have successfully digitised about 200,000 files in achieves of the Agency, title holders can now geo-refference their lands. The automated files include that of government, industrial, commercial and individual ” Alhaji Bababe said.
According to him more than one thousand Certificate of Occupancy have been issued by the state government in the last two years which equals the ones issued from 1999 to 2019.
The Executive Secretary advised people who build houses on water ways to immediately vacate as government has set a high powered committee to enforce the demolition of marked houses.
He identified challenges faced by the Agency to include corrupt government officials and land vendors as well as ignorant public.
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