Land Use Charge: Comply With Payment -Lagos Govt To Property Owners

The Lagos State Government has called on property owners to voluntarily comply with payment of the Land Use Charge for development of the state.

The Commissioner for Finance, Mr Abayomi Oluyomi, made the appeal on Sunday evening during the Parkview Residents’ Association’s General Meeting in Ikoyi.

Oluyomi, while sensitising the property owners in the estate on the need to pay the Land Use Charge (LUC), said the payment would enable government address all infrastructure challenges raised at the meeting with ease.

He charged them to pay their LUC to support the state government’s development initiatives.

The Commissioner said the estate was a highbrow settlement, adding that the elites who owned the properties should pay the LUC as a civic responsibility.

According to him, a 15 per cent discount had been attached as incentive to encourage payments.

He explained the legal implications of total refusal to pay the charges, while listing categories of elderly citizens and conditions for exemption for them and few other groups.

The commissioner said the government decided to change strategy to begin visiting residents’ associations on the axis to boost compliance.

Recall that the government flagged off the sensitisation to promote the payment of the Land Use Charge (LUC) in the state on June 24, 2024.

The government engaged 500 adhoc staff for awareness advocacy, which began in Lagos Island, Victoria Island, and Eti-Osa Local Government/Local Council Development Areas.

Oluyomi said that there were about 200 estates on the axis but his ministry had so far visited eight, expressing hope to cover the entire axis before the end of 2024 to boost compliance.

So, I am just here to appeal to you, compliance rate is too low for particularly elites. We shouldn’t see that in the midst of elites.

“Now, what we will do is to go to estates to keep on talking to them, rather than just go to everybody the same day,” he said.

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