Sam Adeyemi advocates for the revocation of Land Use Act

According to The Cable, Sam Adeyemi, the Senior Pastor of  Daystar Christian Centre, says Nigeria’s Land Use Act is a formula for mass poverty, and must be removed, for the country to unleash its potentials.

The Cable reports that Sam Adeyemi, while speaking at The Platform on Saturday about “unleashing potentials for wealth creation”, said “the elite class makes it difficult, for example, for you to own land, which is the baseline for wealth creation”.

“When it takes you five years to change the ownership of landed property to your name at the land registry, how do you derive economic value for it?” Adeyemi questioned.

“You own land, they say you can’t own what is under it, they sell what is under it and then spend the money on themselves. You deposit money in banks, and the banks won’t loan you the money; why are you putting your money in the banks?.

“If we want to prosper and see Nigeria develop, we must ensure some deep changes in our economic and political institutions. For the potential  of the average Nigerian to create wealth to be unleashed, we need to be given property rights more easily.

“The Land Use Act must be removed from our constitution and must be thoroughly reviewed. To buy a landed property and to wait for years for governor’s consent or the certificate of occupancy, is a formula for mass poverty.”

The Cable also reports that Sam Adeyemi ended his speech with a message of hope, courage, and prophecies for a developed Nigeria.

Source: The Cable