Nigeria: Built Environment Experts Back Confab to Expunge Land Use Act From Constitution

24 June 2014

As the National Conference votes this week on whether the contentious 1978 Land Use Act which was allegedly 'smuggled' into the 1999 Nigerian Constitution by the military junta led by General Olusegun Obasanjo rtd, should be expunged from the statute books or retained, built environment experts have called on delegates to the conference to vote in favour of its expurgation.

The experts explained that removing the Act from the Constitution, would make its amendment less cumbersome. According to them, the law which was made about 36 years ago, should be reviewed in line with prevailing economic realities. They maintained that its retention in the Constitution would make the amendment almost impossible.

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