is required for mining or oil pipelines (Land Use Act, Section 2) Under the if No equivalence between Land Use Act, Land Users Identify and address impacts compulsorily acquired land Bank and Nigerian systems also if they result from other was used for agriculture, the for identifying and addressing activities that are: (a) directly person shall be given an impacts resulting from project and significantly related to the alternative piece of land to use related activities. proposed project, (b) for the same purpose (Land necessary to achieve its Use Act, Section 6). If the objectives, and (c) carried out land houses a residential or planned to be carried out building, the government may contemporaneously with the choose to resettle the persons project. affected in another alternative “reasonable However, accommodation.” if the value of the alternate accommodation is higher than the compensation owed to the displaced persons, the difference will be treated as a loan that the recipients must replay to the government (Land use Act, Section 33).
is required for mining or oil pipelines (Land Use Act, Section 2) Land Users Under the Land Use Act, if compulsorily acquired land was used for agriculture, the person shall be given an alternative piece of land to use for the same purpose (Land Use Act, Section 6). If the land houses a residential building, the government may choose to resettle the persons affected in another “reasonable alternative accommodation.” However, if the value of the alternate accommodation is higher than the compensation owed to the displaced persons, the difference will be treated as a loan that the recipients must replay to the government (Land use Act, Section 33). Identify and address impacts also if they result from other activities that are: (a) directly and significantly related to the proposed project, (b) necessary to achieve its objectives, and (c) carried out or planned to be carried out contemporaneously with the project. No equivalence between Bank and Nigerian systems for identifying and addressing impacts resulting from project related activities.
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