As part of the strategy to enhance seamless and integrated land administration processes in the state, Lagos State Government has adopted the Aumentum Land Administration – automation process to digitise and secure land documentation.
As part of the strategy to enhance seamless and integrated land administration processes in the state, Lagos State Government has adopted the Aumentum Land Administration – automation process to digitise and secure land documentation.
Permanent Secretary, Lands Bureau, Kamar Olowoshago, disclosed this during a media briefing in his office at Alausa while reviewing the activities of the bureau.
Olowoshago said that the aumentum solutions, as a digitised process, allows the government to automate land record management and facilitates the registration of property transactions in a more chronological, controlled and transparent manner. He said that the digital invention simplifies the way the state manages land information and property tax revenue.
According to him, “the state government has joined the league of global pacesetters by complying with a technology-driven and administration process.” He said that by deploying the aumentum land administration solution, the state is assured of higher productivity, enhanced revenue generation, security of documents and others.
The permanent secretary acknowledged that land administration in Lagos State has transverse over several decades and stages in its journey towards integrating technology that is all-encompassing and sustainable.
He traced the trajectory from the implementation of the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) in 2013 to the electronic Certificate of Occupancy in 2014 and then to the integrated Land Administration- Automation process introduced in 2019, noting that the land administration in the state has evolved to provide insurmountable standards in land management across the nation.
He lauded the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for taking bold steps in this regard. Olowoshago further said that the transformation involves the movement of files from the three main directorate repositories to the digitisation project campus, preliminary sorting of files into government schemes and private properties, sorting of private property files into transaction files across 20 local councils of the state, merging of root title processing files with subsequent transaction as encumbered and unbinding of Titles and Deeds from registered volumes for chronological sorting, among others.
He also disclosed that to speed up the digitisation process, the bureau engaged about a hundred ad-hoc members of staff to discharge the enormous assignment of transforming manual documents which initially existed in disjointed silos into digital forms.
Olowoshago, however, said that the herculean transformation of manual paper documentation and archival of records had over the period under review transited and metamorphosed into a digital workflow machine, encapsulating and streamlining property documents for improved customer-service delivery experience and enhanced revenue generation.
