The state legislature will enact new property and business ownership legislation in the state, according to Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa.
This was said by Obasa during both the Tuesday inauguration of the 10th Lagos assembly and his acceptance speech for a third term as speaker of the Lagos parliament.
Remember that during the general elections in 2023, Lagos people supposedly split along ethnic, political, and religious lines?
Numerous Igbos supported the Labour Party’s Peter Obi for president and the Labour Party’s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour for state governor, respectively, in the presidential and governorship elections.
However, this development drew criticism after Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, was defeated by Obi Lagos on February 25.
Obasa stated, “There would be laws…in the areas of economy and commerce, property and titles, and we will reverse all that is reversible to protect the interest of the indigenes,” during the opening of the Lagos parliament.
As opposed to claims made by some that Lagos is a no man’s land, it is a Yoruba land.
Therefore, he continued, “Part of our legislative agenda is to ensure that laws passed by this House are translated into the Yoruba language.”
The speaker claims that the new land and property rules solely benefit natives.
He said, “We also aim at achieving our collective goals of creating a robust legislative framework that protects the interest of our people. Going forward, we are going to employ all legislative instruments for the support of the indigenes of Lagos.
“There would be laws and resolutions in the areas of economy and commerce, property and titles, and we will reverse all that is reversible to protect the interest of the indigenes.”