MOVED to eradicate fraudulent or multiple property registration, Enugu Government has commenced it’s Virtual Streets (EVS), aimed at creating a database management system for property located within the state.
The system is expected to eliminate touting in the land tenure system by the licensing of bona fide property brokers or licensed practitioners through the restriction of access to sensitive data, as well as create a statewide transparent electronic property registry.
The Commissioner for Lands, Survey, and Urban Development, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ujam, who disclosed this during a press briefing on the project, added that it would block leakages on income that ought to accrue to the state government on land transactions.
According to him, the project would help residents of the state as well as visitors to monitor assets and access specific information, stressing that it would also help in stamping out touting in land deals.
He said: “To put it in perspective, if the people of xyz in Nsukka areas suddenly have no water and they are looking for the nearest boreholes, instead of walking around or sending children who should be going to school to be checking different areas, all they need do will be to send a text from their phone to the EVS system and it will reply with the closest boreholes in the area.
“Another typical example will be if a stranger traveling through Enugu required the use of a bank-specific or type-specific ATM cash machine, the system would allow such a person to query it to locate such services, just as they would be able to a nearby hospital in an emergency”.
“A very critical element of this system is the ability to track and monitor assets, invariably you will be able to view some key properties via the system just as if you were watching via CCTV. This will definitely also help in improving security in the state”, he added.
The commissioner equally disclosed that a reputable transaction management company, Benjamin Knight Associates, had been engaged to formulate a workable system that would make the project a success.
He outlined the specific features of the system upgrade to include- Enugu Township Street view with some in three dimensions, Enugu A-Z, similar to London A-Z, point of interest locations searches, land ownership registry, direction search, among others.
Ujam said on assumption of office two years ago, he observed that the Ministry required an upgrade and expansion of its work flows adding that processes for a more effective and faster delivery of services, so as to meet up with internationally obtainable standards.
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