Landholders’ Awareness of Compulsory Acquisition of Land and Compensation Process in Bauchi, Nigeria

Muhammad Usman Adekunle, Hadiza Tijjani Bello, Samirah Ibrahim Jibril, Ibrahim Idris

Landholders’ Awareness of Compulsory Acquisition of Land and Compensation Process in Bauchi, Nigeria

Číslo: 9/2020
Periodikum: Path of Science
DOI: 10.22178/pos.62-2

Klíčová slova: landholders; awareness; compulsory acquisition; the compensation process

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Anotace: This study aims to assess landholder’s awareness of compulsory acquisition of land on their satisfaction with the compensation process in Bauchi, Nigeria, to identify areas of weakness in the process and propose areas of improvement. The study adopted the use of a quantitative approach and data were collected through a questionnaire survey from 327 landholders affected by the compulsory acquisition and compensation exercise by the Bauchi State Government. The data collected were subjected to descriptive with mean ranking, frequency distribution. The study revealed that the respondents are aware of the process before the compulsory acquisition and during the process of compulsory acquisition they were also aware of. This means that the respondents agreed that they were aware of the process/procedures involved in compulsory land acquisition, laws, and procedures guiding compulsory land acquisition and compensation process. It recommended that Landholders should be made more aware of the process involved in compulsory acquisition and compensation not only at inception but up to the end of the exercise.