Knowledge Zone: Fayemi promises to compensate land owner

The governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi says his administration would do everything within it’s reach to ensure that farm owners whose lands were acquired for the use of Ekiti knowledge zone, are well compensated.

Fayemi made the disclosure while distributing cheques to the first set of farmers whose lands were acquired for the project in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital.

The governor explained that a total of 955 hectares of lands were acquired for the knowledge zone.

Fayemi was represented by his chief of staff, Biodun Omoleye

He said that the model school for which compensation was being paid for, would occupy only five hectares of the entire Ekiti knowledge zone landmass.

The governor stressed that the compensation for the acquired 955 hectares of land would be done in phases as utilization arises, stressing that his government would always want rural and urban development.

The governor urged the beneficiaries of the first phase of the compensation to utilize the fund judiciously and purposefully.