The Chief executive officer minister Properties, Lion Badmus Toye Arowolo has expressed the need for functioning urban infrastructure with thousands of people across the country moving to urban areas daily
Lion Badmus, who stated this during an interview with selected journalists during the weekend
in his office at Minister Properties, office located at the back of total GRACE FILLING STATION WEMA BANK BUSSTOP NEW IFE ROAD IBADAN (SALAMI SHOPPING COMPLEX SUITES NO 25. The real estate guru reveals that real estate dealers especiallyiin Oyo State are collaborating with government to ensure that quacks are fraudsters are eliminated in the profession.
He appealed to both federal and state governments to extend infrastructural development to rural communities across the country in order to decongest the cities.
Lion Toye advised that the most appropriate way to prevent cities from being overpopulated by those in search of greener pasture was to ensure that institutions, and industries among others thrived in communities outside the cities.
The CEO minister Properties Alhaji Badmus disclosed that the institution had been making moves to partner with the government on how the decongestion process can be achieved seamlessly, stressing the need for functioning urban infrastructure
He said: “Take, for instance, a country like South Africa, if you have been to Sun City, it was a bush, but some people came up and did a proposal. Sun City is one of the best cities in South Africa today.
“So we will partner and collaborate with the state governments to extend infrastructural facilities out of the cities to decongest the cities.
“If we have good infrastructure outside the cities, if we have higher institutions outside the cities, if we have good industries outside the cities and if there is power, many people will not come into the city and start dragging for nothing.
“So we will advise the government and we have been doing that but we will not be tired of doing it to make sure that they take our proposal and I know that this state governor (Engr. Seyi Makinde) listens a lot and most other governors too.
“So we will collaborate with government to ensure that infrastructural provision is key and we will give them more technical advise and report on how to achieve the decongestion of our cities in collaboration with other professional bodies.”
He also disclosed that the institution had put in place some measures to tackle quackery within its fold, and said “we are doing a lot of advocacy right now to let the public know who the quacks are and who the real estate agents are.
When asked how to identify quackery and professionals in real estate, he said ” by the way the quack changes their locations, phone numbers even with their menus of operations you can easily spot the difference”
“We are doing everything as a professional body to bring across the country agents, train them and asked them to belong to that association so that if anything is done wrongly by them, they can be traced. As it is, you hardly can trace them.
“We will work closely with the state government to stop fraud and quackery in estate development and management, mortgage negotiations, sale of land and property, among others.”
While pledging that the general interests of the profession will be the focus of his executives, the new state Chairman advised that the public and government should rely on the professional body on policy formulation, valuation as well as land administration.
“We have made up our minds to leave the branch much better than we met it. We wish to let you know that we have a number of strategies in place which we shall strive to execute.”