By Musa Yaro
The Cross River State Government has announced plans to recover all government properties sold to individuals and groups.
The Chief of Staff to the Governor of Cross River State, Hon. Emmanuel Ironbar stated this when he embarked on the inspection of all government-owned properties within the Calabar metropolis.
Ironbar who decried the illegality of such acquisitions by some individuals and organizations assured that it will recover all the properties.
The Chief of Staff, led by some senior staff of the Ministry of Lands and Housing said, the inspection became necessary because of the urgent need to ensure that all government properties still occupied by private individuals and unauthorized organizations are immediately recovered.
“Normally at the expiration of one tenure, it is expected that public officials who served in that administration should leave and allow those in the new administration to take over and use the facilities allocated to them for the time they will serve in the new government.
“But what I have gone around to see is very pathetic that government properties have been sold out, it is not right because if other administrations before now had done the same, then successive governments would not have had any property to inherit,” Ironbar said.
He expressed optimism that the special committee set up to review the transition report as well as that of the recovery of government properties will work toward the realization of their objectives.
