The Ogun State Government has granted a three-month amnesty for property owners who built without the required planning permits, urging them to come forward and regularise their documents to avoid sanctions.
The state government which announced the amnesty through its Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, added that the amnesty when embraced comes with 50% reduction in penal fees.
The commissioner in the ministry, TPL. Tunji Odunlami, revealed this on Friday while briefing newsmen, stressing that the programme would run from November 1 to January 31, 2026.
Odunlami said that the concession covers residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and mixed-use projects.
According to him, whoever regularises his development within the 3 – month window period will receive a 50 per cent reduction in standard penal fines.
He explained that the initiative was approved by Governor Dapo Abiodun to improve compliance with the Ogun State Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law, ease year-end financial pressure on property owners, and strengthening the state’s planning database for improved infrastructure development.
“On the 1 November 2025, His Excellency Prince Dapo Abiodun CON, MFR, Governor Ogun State approved the commencement of an amnesty programme which provides a window of opportunity for those who have built without obtaining planning permit as required by the Ogun State Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law and its Regulations, to regularise the illegality by obtaining their permit and enjoy 50 per cent reduction in the applicable penal fees for such developments.
“These include residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and mixed-use developments, and all other categories of physical developments covered by the law and regulations.
“The amnesty programme will run for a period of three months, ending January 31, 2026,” he said.
On setbacks, the Commissioner warned that violations of road and expressway setback regulations would no be condoned any longer, lamenting that the highway corridors in the state have been encroached upon by shanties, temporary stalls, other haphazard developments, containers, signage and indiscriminate truck parks.
He explained that such illegal physical structures constitute obstructions, deface the environment, posing public safety risks and cause drainage problems.
He specifically identified the affected areas as the Lagos–Ibadan expressway stretching from Berger Bridge at the Lagos boundary to Onigari at the Oyo State boundary; the Abeokuta–Sagamu Interchange Highway (Muhammadu Buhari Expressway); and the Sagamu Interchange–Ajebandele corridor, which marks the Ogun–Ondo State boundary on the Sagamu–Benin Expressway.
Others, he added, are the Lagos–Abeokuta Highway from Ota Toll Gate to Bakatari, the Ogun–Oyo State boundary; Papalanto–Sagamu Interchange; Ijebu-Ode–Mojoda (Epe) Highway; Ogijo–Sagamu Highway; and other major roads and streets across the state.
He urged property owners whose plots face expressways and major highways in the state to seek the ministry’s assistance in removing such unauthorised developments.
Odunlami explained that the amnesty and setback-clearing exercises are being coordinated from the Oke-Mosan headquarters in Abeokuta and the 32 zonal planning offices across Ogun State.
