Imoke signs 30 CofOs monthly, says Oku

“Governor Imoke now signs at least 30 C-of-Os every month to ensure that applicants and land owners readily have access to their land with ease. We have thus made land acquisition easy and less cumbersome to investors”, he said.Speaking when a state-of-the-art survey and town planning department with a status of an extra-ministerial outfit was […]

“Governor Imoke now signs at least 30 C-of-Os every month to ensure that applicants and land owners readily have access to their land with ease. We have thus made land acquisition easy and less cumbersome to investors”, he said.
Speaking when a state-of-the-art survey and town planning department with a status of an extra-ministerial outfit was carved out from the state ministry of lands and housing, the surveyor-general stated that revenue profile of the department has increased tremendously as a result of the availability of the C-of-Os.
Oku said as a result of this, “It has now placed Cross River as one of the fifth most accessible states by investors and donor partners in the country.”
He disclosed, “The government decided to carve out this department from Ministry of Lands so that we can cut off unnecessary bureaucratic bottleneck to enable us render services to the public and meet up demands of the state.
“In fact, by law, we were supposed to be a stand-alone department, following the ratification by the state exco in November 2013.”
Oku maintained that “with the installation of basic modern machinery in the office, access to land in the state for whatever purpose is now done in record time with the collaboration of Geographic Information Agency (GIA)  which is now up to it billings.”