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The Lagos State Government says the spot it precocious demolished astatine Oworonshoki was amerciable and posed important risks to the occupants.
The authorities Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Oluyinka Olumide, said this astatine a quality league astatine Alausa, Ikeja, connected Wednesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that residents of Oworonshoki staged a protestation connected Monday, disrupting postulation travel connected the Third Mainland Bridge.
The protestation followed the demolition of immoderate buildings successful their community.
The demolition was targeted astatine unapproved structures connected the Lekki and Oworonshoki coastal lines.
The commissioner told journalists that the spot were illegal.
He emphasised that engagements preceded the demolition, contrary to claims that Lagos State Government did not springiness immoderate announcement earlier the demolition.
“We don’t disclose the clip of enforcement, but the information is that determination is ever engagement earlier immoderate enforcement,” helium said.
He expressed dissatisfaction astatine the rhythm of squatter settlements connected coastal areas, wherever archetypal makeshift shelters evolved into factual structures often involving amerciable onshore income by section claimants known arsenic “omo onile”.
The commissioner highlighted dangers of unapproved structures, citing examples wherever buildings without due engineering became distressed and threatened lives.
According to him, erstwhile a gathering is marked arsenic distressed, it means it is nary longer suitable for habitation.
“It is simply a menace to life.”
He recalled an incidental astatine Ebute Meta country of Lagos, wherever a distressed gathering collapsed and killed an 83-year-old man.
The commissioner outlined categories of structures that tin beryllium demolished successful Lagos State to see structures nether high-tension lines, those connected state lines, buildings connected drainage paths/setbacks, and those without approval.
He added that gathering connected an informal oregon not-ready-to-use onshore owned by the authorities authorities would pull demolition.
“In the lawsuit of Iyano Oworo, they don’t adjacent person approval; hence the demolition.
On imaginable compensation, Olumide said it would beryllium incorrect to usage taxpayers’ wealth to compensate amerciable occupants.
“Should the authorities usage taxation payers’ hard-earned wealth to wage idiosyncratic for an amerciable structure? Is that fair? No,” helium said.
The commissioner advised members of the nationalist to beryllium vigilant erstwhile purchasing onshore to debar gathering connected unapproved land.
“Some of them assertion to beryllium section landowners, the alleged ‘omo onile’ and accidental that their forefathers owned the place, and they commencement selling the land, which is illegal,” helium said.
Olumide said determination was the request to travel owed process successful onshore acquisition
He urged prospective buyers to verify the legitimacy of onshore titles and comply with readying regulations earlier buying to debar losing their investments.
The station Oworonshoki: Demolished spot amerciable — Lagos commissioner appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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