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Published 3 January 2021
It is exactly one year on January 2nd, 2021 that the Kwara State Government took official possession of a portion of land otherwise known as Ile Arugbo or Ile L’Oke, depending on which side of Kwara politics one may belong to. Until the takeover, the land housed some shelters where the late Senator Olusola Saraki, and later his children, gathered their political followers to share largesse of various kinds. That facility until recently was occupied by hundreds of people, mostly the aged.
The days leading to January 2nd 2020, the day the land was taken over by the government, were charged. Precisely on December 28, the government issued a statement announcing the reclamation of the land from a firm owned by the late Saraki on the ground that the land belonged to the government, was meant for construction of a secretariat, but gifted to the firm without a dime paid to the public coffers or any document lawfully transferring its o