Date: 2018-06-02

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on land administration with EcoBank and Southgate Technologies Consortium.

Speaking at the ceremony at Government House, Ilorin, Mr Ahmed said the digitisation of land administration would bring efficiency in service delivery.

He said digitisation was an e-governance initiative meant to introduce efficiency into land administration, create optimal utilisation of wealth and ensure effective deployment of goods and services in the state.

The governor described the initiative as giant step toward efficiency in deployment of goods and services to create maximum impact on majority of the people through the deployment of technology.

Mr Ahmed said the MOU would lead to an improvement in the quality of service delivery, shorten turnaround time and maintain consistency in services.

The governor stated that the digitisation of land administration in the state would also increase the Internally Generated Revenue.

Mr Ahmed added that it would improve public perception of state bureaucracy and strengthen institutional capacity as well as improve overall performance of the public service.

The initiative was based on PPP model of Design-Build-Finance-Maintain & Transfer (DBF-MT), with a tenor of five years.

(NAN)