The Edo State Government has said it is leveraging technology to boost investment inflow into the state, facilitate ease of doing business and promote business growth through the land administration reforms by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration.
Speaking to journalists in Benin City, Managing Director of the Edo Geographic Information Service (EdoGIS), Osaro Grace Aihie, noted that the ease and convenience in processing title documents for landed property and the improved land administration system has opened the state for economic growth and attracted several investors.
She said: “We have done so much to enhance the ease of doing business through our reforms in land administration. Ease of doing business comprises that investors should have a fair playing ground, and the people should be carried along to understand what the investors have come to do.
“So, what we do is sit together and discuss. Where there are problems, we look at the problems and look for a solution and everybody agrees, then we go on. That is the ease of business we are talking about.
“We have ensured that businesses and investors don’t have bottlenecks that are stopping them from doing their business. We also made the people understand that if they cooperate with investors, they are likely going to get employment and other benefits.
“These are the things we do. We don’t fight; problems are to be solved. We sit down, look at the problem and solve it. A little to the right, a little to the left, and everybody is happy. And when it comes to the title, if you say you have land somewhere, we will look at our records and tell you that from the records, this or that person is the true owner and problems are solved.”
