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I once wrote this article on a Nigerian forum www.nairaland.com in 2012 and it went viral
all around the world. So due to popular demand, I will reproduce this article again here for
those who havent read it and for you to learn a lot about Survey Plan Scams and how to
avoid being a victim of one. Happy reading!
This article to me is the most important Land related Article I am writing to date and I
really would love all of you interested in buying properties or those that have
bought lands to take this article very seriously. It has to deal with SURVEY
PLANS and why it is a very important document that can either make you bankrupt or
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PLANS and why it is a very important document that can either make you bankrupt or
successful in a land purchase.
I am exposing this because I have also been a victim of terrible and wicked surveyors who
would go to any length to lie, cheat and produce fake Survey plans having issues hereby
leading to so many land purchase atrocities, problems or wahalas.
In fact the number one land problem in Lagos today isnt the famed Omoniles as we all
choose to believe but very dangerous and dodgy surveyors. Most of them parading
themselves as Surveyors are Quacks and not registered Surveyors and they collude
actively with Omoniles and Land fraudsters to cause mayhem.
They distort survey plans, forge signatures, steal (Free from Acquisition)
Stamps, Fabricate square meters to make it look big but by the time they
measure it its some hundred meters short, they fail to put the beacon
numbers on the floor to reflect the points where the property starts and
stops, they create fictitious existing roads and generally destroy the plan of
the whole community.
The greatest crime these surveyors do is to carry out fake coordinates and that to me
kills the potential buyer. Naturally a surveyor should take coordinates of the area using
their GPS machine and compare it with the master plan obtainable at the Surveyor
generals office, instead these Terrible surveyors bank on the ignorance of
everyone, take fake coordinates and tell you it is free from acquisition and we
accept it without asking questions. By the time land buyers take their documents to
the Land Bureau registry for their Governors consent or Ratification, you will get a letter
from the Land Bureau registry querying it and stating that the property is not free from
Government acquisition or that a land which ordinarily should be located in Ogombo will be
showing Ibeju Lekki on the master survey plan at the Land Bureau registry. The truth
here too is that we the buyers also encourage these dodgy surveyors to do a lot of
fraudulent things because we dont pay their search money or do the proper thing like
obtaining Land information to show the true status of the property.
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Example of a GPS that a Surveyor takes to the site to check the coordinates of
a land to know whether its a Good or Bad Land. Avoid using quack or dubious
surveyors who use this GPS to still lie and deceive Purchasers of Land
I have been involved countless times on behalf of clients who are not ready to pay lets say
N30,000 to a surveyor to do a proper search result and document it from their office.
They will rather give the surveyor N3,000 for fuel and they expect the surveyor to give
them a proper result for a property worth over N1Million Naira. Even me sef, Una de pay
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Another set of people I should blame is the Office of the Surveyor General for not
simplifying things to make people have easy access to having the land information
properly endorsed from their office. They tell you that before you can get a land
information, you must do the survey plan first which could cost up to N150,000 or more
and after which you can now apply for the Land information certificate which is
around the N30,000 to N50,000 mark but am not too sure about the current price.
Major question now is, what if the land is under acquisition and the surveyor makes a
mistake after they have spent N150,000 PLUS to do a survey plan since there is nothing
like a provisional survey plan, Do you get a refund? How many survey plans will you
continually spend money on before you get a Land information certificate?
If all the lands youre going to search all fall within Government acquisition
and are deemed not free, who absolves the cost? E.g you do like 4 searches to buy a
land at Eleko and all the 4 survey plans all show they are not free or committed lands and
you have spent almost N600,000 to do survey plans and the land is worth N1Million,
would it encourage you to buy lands? This is just part of the insensitivity of Government
policy makers who are content on making people pay more and not care about the costs of
the search. Thats why people will continue to use these Quack surveyors and pray youre
dealing with a registered approved God fearing surveyor who has your interest at heart.
Some people will say the surveyor should take the coordinates from the land and go
personally to the surveyor Generals office to cross check. Question: How would you
know he crossed checked it properly? Because the Client did not pay them properly
through mobilization to do the search and secondly most of them have the software of
Coordinates of the whole Lagos on their computers and they do the mapping there, they
will just compare the coordinates with the ones on their system and forget that since its a
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will just compare the coordinates with the ones on their system and forget that since its a
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So what might be free today, might be revoked tomorrow and its only at the surveyor
generals office they can confirm authoritatively.
I myself have been a victim of 3-4 lands not because of some silly greedy Omoniles but
because of dodgy surveyors and fraudulent survey plans and thats why I had to almost
give up doing searches until I met a new God fearing Registered Surveyor and for the past
one year I have been grateful to God for meeting her. She helped me expose most of the
fraudulent things her colleagues have been doing to people and things to watch out for and
I have taken my time to money to educate you guys about the pros and cons of a survey
plan and what you should watch out for and I will give you some practical experiences I
have encountered so as to guide and aid you to avoid making the same mistakes a lot of
Nigerians including Yours truly have encountered in the hands of these Dodgy Surveyors.
P. S : For the avoidance of doubt, I am not attacking the Surveying Profession. It is a
Profession filled with honorable people and they have an Institute of Nigerian Surveyors
that regulates them. Only deal with REGISTERED SURVEYORS AND ASK FOR
THEIR CREDENTIALS. No credential, Not registered, No business, No Search!!!!

1. The first thing you have to look out for in a survey plan is the Name. An example or
illustration of a survey plan with the name is below. Without that name the whole survey
plan is a problem. A simple spelling mistake of the name can nullify the whole survey plan
and its very important to make sure you look at the name properly before accepting it
from the surveyor.
CASE STUDY: PROBLEM WITH SURVEY PLAN NAME:
A land buyer approached a Seller WHOSE NAME WAS MR BOLA JACKSON who wanted
to buy a land and ordinarily asked him for the survey plan so that he could do his checks to
confirm whether it was free. When the buyer got to the Surveyor generals office to check
whether the red copy has been placed, he found another person having the name MR
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land in the same area and Bala Jackson had registered his own. Apparently the Omoniles
had discovered this error and did not alert the true owner of the land Mr BOLA Jackson
and the owner himself did not spot it.
It was very difficult for Mr BOLA Jackson to do a change of name correction and even
prove he was the owner of the land. The mental stress and anguish the Seller faced during
that period was unimaginable because once the name has been lodged in the data base or
original list as the true owner of the survey, it automatically means all other documents
must follow the same pattern because of that name problem and it automatically leads to
identity theft or false misrepresentation of that person.
As for the surveyor,e don run go since (Disappeared) and the real Mr. Bola had to spend
money again to redo the survey plan in his name and pay other fees to rectify that simple
error before he could attempt to resell the land. So once you see the slightest spelling error
in the name from a Survey Plan, be very adamant that the surveyor gets the spelling
correct unless it could pose problems for you. The Quack Surveyors are very good with
this because they do things rush rush without thinking and are only concerned about the
money they are ripping off from you.
See the Image below to see a copy of a Survey plan with the sample name on it
(REAL NAME HIDDEN TO PROTECT PRIVACY OF THE PERSON)

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The name of the Owner of the Survey Plan must be spelt out correctly. Errors must not be
tolerated.

2. The second thing you look out for in a survey plan is the Registered Seal of the
Surveyor who did the Survey plan. Without this Seal please dont even touch the survey
plan. Most of these quacks dont have the seal so they show unsuspecting land buyers
survey plans without it. The ones that think they are smart end up stealing the Seal of
their OGAS (Boss) But you wont see the registration number there. Always ask for the
Registration Card of the Surveyor and Check for the seal unless the whole survey plan is
defective.

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Check for the Registered Seal of the Surveyor embossed on the Survey Plan. No seal, no
Touch!

3. The third thing you have to look out for in a Survey Plan is the Address. This is also
where you will find a lot of fraudulent things done by the surveyor and Omonile.
Because the Omoniles want to do something dodgy, they wont put the name of the street,
Area or Local government correctly.
Imagine you seeing a Survey plan and the address written is (At Ajah) or ( At Isolo)!
Where is at Ajah? Ajah has over 100 towns and communities. So when the surveyor writes
(AT AJAH) Know there is a problem. The only permissible excuse for this is if the Land is
located in an Undeveloped area and there are no visible layouts or perimeter boundaries to
locate the area in question, then its permissible to just use that AT AJAH (But the adjoining
community must be added. E.g AT OKUN AJAH WITHIN AJAH IN ETI-OSA
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA.
The Omoniles use this Scam to hood wink people into buying wrong places they shouldnt
ordinarily buy. Because the person is interested in buying a good place they have not set
their eyes on, they fall victim of the survey plan and its mostly Nigerians living abroad
they use this scam for. ( Please Beware of them)
Also check properly for the Local Government Area written in the Survey plan unless it
could alter the whole thing. E.G BOGIJE Is in IBEJU LEKKI LOCAL GOVERNMENT And
not in ETI-OSA. If your survey plan shows that Bogije is in Eti-Osa local government or
Ogba is in Ojodu Local Government,it is a defective plan. Always know the local
government the Land is being located unless it will cost you.

Learn to study the address that is on the Survey plan to know whether it makes sense or
corresponds with the area your buying!

4. Fourthly one of the most important things in a survey plan is the Area or the size of
the land. This is one area these dodgy surveyors perform the most havoc to the
owner of the land.
Because they dont come with the proper tools to measure the land, they dont get the
exact square meters of a land. They either short change or unnecessarily add extra meters
to make it look larger than normal or fabricate corner pieces. This is where every
potential land owner must sacrifice time to visit the land when they are
measuring the land or send a representative.
Normally there is a surveying instrument they use to just get the square meters of the
coordinates after measuring it but I dont trust these boys. The old measuring tape is fine
by me. You will know exactly what youre getting. The only reason you shouldnt go there
is If you trust your surveyor Apart from that, you must be there with him. One meter
reduced from your land will be added to another persons land and automatically youre
looking at a border dispute case.
There are a plethora of cases regarding this particular issue and I will tell you a classic that
occurred last year at ABIJO when i did a search for a Client.
CASE STUDY
After a rigourous search had been done on a land at ABIJO, I finally agreed that the land is
free from encumberance and the transaction should take place. I visited the site
unannounced the next day uncharacteristically and I studied the survey plan given to me
and the one I just visited. The survey plan was showing 729 SQUARE METERS and this
made the Seller say he is adding extra price to the Amount agreed for.
This price increment led to several quarrels and the man wasnt ready to bulge because his
surveyor told him it was more than a plot and a regular plot is above 600 SQUARE
METERS. I now told him we wanted to measure the land ourselves to get the true value of
the size AND that Led to another serious quarrel. But as soon as he saw the cheque book of
the Client falling from her Bag who said she was willing to pay him on the spot once they
measure it, he agreed and after measuring it we got 512 Square meters. The Seller
almost ran mad. It was not even up to one full plot. We jejely (quietly)carried out 2
left legs and left the site (Lol)
The size of a land determines how much the land will go for and the amount of space
required putting up your building and the amount remaining for right of way/Set back.
Because of this, Dodgy surveyors collude with the owners of land to fraudulently
misrepresent the actual size of the land so that they can benefit from it financially from the
Seller. Also a false size of the land will change the way youre being assessed for your
Governors consent/ Building Approval, so you must be very vigilant about this so you
wont get duped by these people.
The size of the land is very important. Make sure it is well measured before you do
anything on the land so that you wont shortchange yourself

5. Another Important part of the Survey plan that you must look out for is the Survey
Plan Number. This is a classic scam that some surveyors use to deceive people. They will
draw up the whole survey plan but conveniently hide the Survey Plan. Without a
survey plan number your survey is as good as useless. Your childs drawings are probably
worth more in Value than your survey plan.
Without that Survey plan number, it cannot be lodged at the surveyor generals office for
record purposes, it cannot be used to draft your agreement, it cannot be used to trace the
red copy and I cannot be used as evidence in court during a property law suit because its
defective from the start.
It is always at the lower right hand corner of a survey plan and because these dodgy
surveyors dont intend to lodge the red copy they end up not giving the survey a Survey
plan number. They will tell you they have lodged it but it hasnt been lodged because there
is no record file of it. Always check for the Survey plan number at first glance.
Without the Survey Plan number, the Survey plan cannot be lodged at the Surveyor
Generals office meaning there is no proof of the existence of that survey plan

6. This one is the koko of all the Survey plan scams you can think of and thats the Date
the Survey plan was made. This has been used to hoodwink thousands of buyers in
Lagos and when it matters the most they come up short. It is what is known as BACK-
DATING.
Naturally if a Survey plan is being done today it should show done on the 24th day of April
2012, but sometimes you see a very clean survey plan and you see done on the 25th day of
March 2001 and you wonder when was the land bought? When was the area given an
excision or C/O and what time did the place open up?
If you take this survey plan to the Surveyor Generals Office, YOU WONT SEE ANY
COPY OF THE LODGED SURVEY PLAN because it has been fraudulently backed
dated to make you believe it was done a long time ago but if you check well you will find out
that it was done just probably last year. This scam is well perfected with the Owner, the
Agent, Surveyor and Omonile to hood wink you into buying it. The ramifications of this
fraud are endless.
Case Study:
There was this land I had to do a search on and I asked for the receipt ( Am so good at
these things now that I can detect the fraud from my office these days . . . lol )
The receipt was showing land bought in 1992. I said no wahala, what about the survey
plan? It was showing 1997. I said no wahala maybe the man did not have money to do the
survey that time. I then decided to ask for the gazette of the area and it was showing me
2007. I asked for the building plan he said he had but did not use it but it was showing
1995.
I asked him how he could draw a building plan before the survey, he started giving me the
greatest bulls**t stories I have ever heard. Telling me about how he owned the land in
1988 before the family gave him the receipt in 1992 and because he knew it was his land,
his brother who is an architect measured it himself and did the building plan in 1995 before
he had money to do the survey plan in 1997.
I agreed with him and quietly took the survey plan to the Surveyor generals office to
compare. The first person I saw there started laughing because he knew it was a backed
dated survey plan and told me not to worry myself because there wouldnt be any record
of it. He said if I probe further that survey plan must have been done 2 or 3 years ago so as
to coincide with the new gazette.
The dangers of a back dated survey plan is that it will be very difficult to process your
papers to either get a C OF O or Governors Consent. And when they find out and
you wont know the true history of the land because it could be another persons land
that they have stolen and are attempting to sell to you or have sold to you and
must have done a backdated survey to confuse people into thinking its an old property so
as to confuse you that its free from defect. Please shine your eyes here.
Avoid back dated survey plans like a plague. It could lead you to serious problems.

7. Another thing you should always look out for when doing a survey search is to Look for
the Logo and Signature of the Registered Surveyor. Without the Signature and logo
of the person who drew up the survey plan, youre holding a dud document.
The logo usually carries their address and they must sign to provide the
authenticity of the survey plan. Please always look out for this unless youre dealing
with quacks, so that in case there is a problem with the survey, the registered surveyor
will assume full liability of the problem, but when you deal with a quack, how do you get
your money, land or proper survey? Does a quack surveyor have an address?
Shine your eye o!
No stamp of the surveyor, No Touch survey plan! Its that simple

8. A survey plan will always show the shape of the land and the existing road. The
shape of the land is very important as it will guide your architect on how to draw the
structure on the land properly and it also helps with the layout of the area so that nobody
encroaches on your own land.
Its very important to take note of that because Omoniles cash in when the existing road
are not properly drawn out. Thats when you hear Omoniles selling roads and
adjoining lands to other users because the land is not properly defined in the
survey. Always ask the Surveyor to show you personally where he derived the existing
road from and how it connects with your land. In fact tell the Owner of the Land to bring
out the layout of the whole land so that they can trace your land from there.
The shape of a land plays a strong role in determining the authenticity of the Survey Plan

9. Another Survey Plan scam which is very important to note is the issue of Beacon
numbers. A Beacon is a small stone on a land used to separate the 4 or 5
corners of a land to differentiate it from another land. Its used as a boundary
guide so as to erect your fence and with those beacons you can locate your land. On top of
the Stones are numbers written on it which can be found from the survey illustration
below.
These Beacon numbers are Unique to only you and no 2 lands can share the
same beacon numbers and its exactly what is written on the survey plan beacon
numbers that must be written on the Beacon stones.
This is where the art of Scamming comes in. Naturally the money paid to the
surveyor isnt only for the drawing of the survey plan but also to purchase the Beacon
numbers/ Beacon stones from the Nigerian institute of Surveyors and only a registered
surveyor can do that and after purchasing it.
Its the duty of the surveyor to go back to the Land to place the survey plan
personally to reflect what is on the Survey plan. (IMPORTANT)
Rather the dodgy ones will do the following:
1.Not pay for the beacon numbers and unilaterally fabricate Beacon numbers
2.Lie to you they have purchased the Beacon numbers and have lodged the Survey plan at
the Surveyor generals office but they havent released them to him because of certain
bureaucracies ( BIG LIE) Rather there is no beacon number purchased neither is there
any bureaucracy preventing it because they havent lodged anything so you cannot get a
Beacon number.
3. Tell you they have gone to the site to place the beacon numbers and when you get there
you will discover there is none and he would tell you the Omoniles came to
remove the Beacons he placed thereand you will be forced to give him more money
to purchase new stones.
4. They will just place the Beacon stones there and not inscribe any number there.
Those are just plain useless stones for decoration.
5. They will place the Beacon stones there and inscribe rubbish or numbers that
dont correlate because they know you wont bother to check. When the wahala
come Surveyor don disappear.
6. The will buy cement on their own and mix rubbish blocks. During rainy season,
the block will crumble and the numbers disappear.
7. Omoniles will always know a quack surveyor so they monitor his every move and when
he makes a mistake they will remove the beacons and tell everyone that the land has been
a jungle since and they are the real owners.
8. Sometimes the Omonile and Surveyor will just collude together and they will place
the beacons in a wrong land and you wont know until wahala show face.
Beacons are Very Important and you shouldnt neglect them at all. Always go and
check whether they are still there or not and cross check with your survey
plan to know whether its still your land.
Watch out for the Beacon numbers scam. It could either make or mar you!
10. And finally the mother of all Survey Plan Scams: Stamping and Non Stamping of
the Free from of Acquisition Logo or stamp.
Simply put, without this stamp your land is in trouble. Full stop.
Once you dont see it there, dont even bother buying it or looking at it twice because its a
problematic land. Most of these terrible and wicked Surveyors use this stamp to hoodwink
people. If the land is not free, they will stamp it as free to confuse you until you do a search
and find out that the land is a committed land.
In fact there is one very notorious Popular Registered Surveyor who has perfected
this scam so much and has put a quarter of Lagosians who have bought land in the
lekki/ Ajah axis in trouble ( name withheld and I will only tell you if youre a close
friend who he is). He wont visit the land and will send his boys to go and draw out the
sketch. Because of money, whether the land is free or not, he will just stamp
free from acquisition on it and when wahala comes, it comes big time and its your
own headache.
Because of that, a lot of dodgy and quack surveyors patronize his office. He wont even look
at the survey plan, he will just demand N40,000 from them and automatically he will
release his stamp and signature and attest the survey plan. The bad part of it is that most
of these dodgy surveyors learnt this thing from him and have perfected it very well.
Because of his reputation, a lot of people have used his firm to do Survey plans and along
the line he became greedier and non chalant and today the surveyor generals office is still
sorting out his mess.
These quacks will go to any length to scam money from you by lying it is free after doing a
fictitious land search and just because they know you will give them the contract to do the
survey plan, they are just after your money first. So many people that have had their
houses demolished, revoked or stolen by Omoniles are as a result of this fraudulent
FREE FROM ACQUISITION STAMP. And by the time you know about it youre in
debt to the tune of millions and youre willing to dispose of the land immediately.
Even when you see the land is free from acquisition written on the survey plan, make sure
inbs/pp;ts a Registered surveyor you trust so that he can put your mind to rest and once
you see on a Survey Plan, ( LAND UNDER GOVERNMENT ACQUISITION)
Better pick race because any fight between you and Government is a sure Loss in your
favour. Some people will still see LAND UNDER GOVERNMENT ACQUISITION
STAMPED ON IT with their Korokoro eyes and still buy the land.
Below are samples of Survey Plans that have Free from Government Acquisition Stamps
and the ones that do not have it hereby showing you which Survey plans have problems
and the ones that do not.

Study them carefully, TAKE OUT YOUR SURVEY PLANS and Compare. If its a
defective Survey Plan, start planning on the next action to take, unless it could come back
to haunt you. This is not one of those Clownish Articles. Take this very serious.
Hope you enjoyed this latest expose and please stop calling me to ask what a survey plan is
anymore. Its all here done and written in its simplest form. My only job is to try to educate
you on certain property issues I have encountered. Am not perfect and I dont want you to
experience the bad things I go through daily when am doing a search or transaction on
your behalf because it gets tiring and I need small help from you guys to make my own job
easier.
Do have a wonderful week and Stay sharp eyed against land fraudsters!

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Barrister Matthew Ottah helps Nigerians avoid being scammed in real
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'Omoniles' when he was still naive about land matters. Now, he's out on a
personal vengeful mission to expose Land scam artists in the Nigerian
real estate sector and protect your hard earned money.
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Onyolu Samson says:
January 6, 2014 at 10:23 pm
lawyer, i appreciate the education. need to know- i have a survey plan (in delta state) that has all items
listed ok except for the free from govenment acquisation stamp. he also said he has registered the plan with the
appropriate agency. i asked the surveyor why the stamp was not there, he said the stamp is only stamped when
one goes for the C of O. is this true? and if no what steps should i take to ensure he does the proper thing. i paid
him what he charge me, higher than others i saw with the believe he is not fake/dubious.
secondly, i have another survey plan in Okokomaiko (ilogbo elegba area) but not sure if the plan is genuine as is
back dated from checking and dont believe its registered with the agency. what will it cost to do a new one? do i
need to do a search first, currently residing there with my family in a three bedroom bongalow.
thanks while i expect your reply.
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RainbowJam says:
Thanks for such detailed information on your website. I am a land Sponsor and Speculator living abroad
and presently going through some painful renegotiations with the surveyor and the family. Knowledge is Power
and I wish I had seen your website before investing in Nigeria.
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Matthew Ottah says:
@rainbow jam
Sorry about that. There are still a lot of good surveyors on Nigeria
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Cece says:
February 25, 2014 at 9:04 am
Thanks a bunch Lawyer. Ive been following your incisive articles on Nairaland.
Just like Samson above, i pulled out my Survey plan for the two plots i bought in Enugu and
everything checks out, apart from free from govt acquisition stamp.
The land is still a new layout and undeveloped, but has been properly mapped out with beacons
and road networks.
What is your advise?
regards.
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Makky says:
Apri l 9, 2014 at 1:00 pm
am a Land marketer in Port harcourt. i wish i can work with you but i doubt hw possible it will be
considering the distance.Port harcourt is a city where pple are very scared wen it comes to land issue if we would
have someone lik u in portharcourt here it will help reduce the complicated or fears in buying land here.I write like
to u to send this Article to my Email.Thanks for ur elightment.
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Pyday says:
May 5, 2014 at 8:05 pm
Hello Mr. Mathew, my surveyor just informed me right now that the chat on my land shows that my land is
within government acquisition but is not committed.
he said i can still get my C of O. but i have to tell a lawyer to do complete search of my land for me before i apply
for the C of O. I also want to let you know that my land is not in a develop area. Please can you give me your
opinion? Thanks in advace.
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Matthew Ottah says:
May 8, 2014 at 3:16 pm
@pyday
Your surveyor is not quite correct. If its under Government acquisition and not committed, you are entitled to
get a regularization document not a C of O. Cheers
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babatunde Ogunnowo says:
May 13, 2014 at 3:53 pm
NICE WRITE UP IS THE FREE FROM GOVERNMENT ACQUSITION REQUIRED FOR ESTATES. THANKS
CHEERS
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Taiwo says:
May 18, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Well done Lawyer! This is good work only God can reward you sufficiently for this educative medium. How
can i process C of O for plots of land recently purchased in Ofada Ogun state, i have genuine survey plans and
signed deed of assignment. All i see at the government website is home owners charter!
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Matthew Ottah says:
May 20, 2014 at 8:47 am
The home charters scheme is for only those that own houses not land. You have to go through the
normal process of acquiring a c of o from the land bureau at Abeokuta.
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