The House of Representatives at the plenary, yesterday mandated its Ad–hoc committee investigating abandoned federal government properties to provide a compendium of all illegally encroached federal government abandoned properties across the nation and overseas, and as well Investigate the forceful acquisition of all these properties by individuals and corporate organisations.

The lawmakers’ resolution was sequel to the adoption of a motion sponsored by Hon. Ibrahim Isiaka.

Moving the motion, Isiaka said that the menace of interloper developers, farmers, land grabbers, hoodlums and destitute encroaching on the developed or undeveloped property of government in Nigeria, has become a worrisome development.

He expressed concerns that critical infrastructure of government such as educational institutions, airports, railway terminals, pipelines, training farms and sundry economic tree plantations are

encroached and illegally occupied by individuals and corporate organizations, adding that quit notices issued to the illegal settlers over the years, had not been obeyed.