The exercise was carried out under the 30 per cent Compensation Land Swap Policy of the government according to the Director-General (D-G), Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS), Muhammad Jalal.
The 30 per cent system was to enable owners of parcels of land acquired for government development projects deal with having to part with lands they might have inherited from their forefathers.
The compensation was an offer of grants (allocation letters) to the land owners, including the people of Igabi and Chikun Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state.
The director general further said that the beneficiaries included people whose lands or farmlands were taken over by the government for the development of the New Kaduna Expansion Project.
Jalal said the compensation was hitherto in the form of cash, but the government later felt it was better to pay the compensation with land.