Fashola Signs Building Control Bill Into Law

The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, on Monday, July 5, 2010 signed into law a bill for the administration of physical planning, urban regeneration and building control. The law, which aims at regulating the construction of buildings in the state, prohibits the activities of roadside block makers.

Governor Fashola, after assenting to the bill at the Lagos House, Ikeja, said that it marked the beginning of his administration’s promise to regulate building construction in the state. The bill is a fallout of frequent building collapses recorded across the state.
The Governor said that interactions with artisans, bricklayers, sand miners and others in the construction industry showed that building collapse was a result of poor quality materials. He stated that artisans in the construction industry had assured him of their support and cooperation to remove roadside block makers and allow legitimate stakeholders to service the public needs in the sector.

Lagos State helmsman said that through the law, the life-span of developed property and the lives of residents would be prolonged, noting that the law would enforce urban and regional planning in the state to ensure safety of lives in the case of emergencies or fire outbreak.

“It will also assist the state in planning the infrastructural needs of the citizens such as in the provision of electricity, water, hospitals and schools, and ensure that building contractors and developers abide by the building codes, by using appropriate building and electrical materials,” the Governor said.

Building for the disabled
Mr. Fashola added that the law also provides that all buildings being constructed in the state must take cognizance of the physically challenged, while provision for the role of insurance firms in the construction of buildings right from the outset by visiting construction sites, was also accentuated in the law.

“They will ensure that buildings are built to right specifications, with right materials for the safety of the workers and fit for tenants’ habitation on completion. When insurance companies are involved, they would be responsible for the payment of compensation to victims of any collapsed buildings if such eventually happens,” he said.

Governor Fashola further explained that landlords with buildings above two floors must obtain certificates of fitness from the Building Control Board. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Political and Legislative Powers Bureau, Abdullatef Abdulhakeem, said that the law had provisions for preservation of the trees within construction sites. “This is to ensure that developers are friendly with their environment, to guide against flooding,” he said.

He explained that under the law, agencies such as the Lagos State Physical Planning and Development Authority (LASPHDA), the Lagos State Building Control and the Lagos State Urban and Rural Agency (LASURA), had been harmonized “to reduce the apprehensions the public used to have when it comes to issues relating to building permits in the state,” he said.

According to Mr. Abdulhakeem, the law stipulates that compensations would be paid to landlords whose certificates of occupancy were revoked in the public interest.

ahh ahnnn. . .if fashola shit una go post am. . .if fashola piss una go post am. . .propaganda govt. . .shiooor. .abeg work more and talk less jare

Policies like these highlights the phrase Eko o ni baje lai lai.

That's a good one

forpeace:

ahh ahnnn. . .if fashola poo una go post am. . .if fashola piss una go post am. . .propaganda govt. . .shiooor. .abeg work more and talk less jare

This has got to be the funniest of the day! ROFLMAO!!

If Fashola steal una go publish am if he is not performing una publish am.

The Parasitic elite and their puns are at it. Psychologically they want us to believe that no modicum of change has occured and nothing will ever change.


Good politics is when the oppossing parties engage without physical combats.

Rubbish post. Stupid and retrogressive law! This Lagos State Govt will go down in history as one that has caused the most damage to the construction and building industry. It's polices are anti-people and retrogressive. All the Govt is after is revenue and revenue at the expense of the people.
The effect of this law and other policies is to milk innocent lagosians and frustrate their desire to own homes. If in doubt readers try one or more of these tasks: go to alausa(seat of Govt in Lagos)
1. try to get a building permit to erect a building
2. Make effort to acquire state land
3. Make attempt to obtain consent for land bought from private party
4. Make attempt to obtain consent for residential or commercial property acquired.
Please share your experiences with fellow nairalanders

Fashola has worsened the housing problem in Lagos by inflicting serious damage on developers and home builders.
The people are suffering and descent housing is the scarcest thing in Lagos.
Yet praise singers will not let us be. They continue to insult our intelligence with posts like the above.
The people are no fools

@gbengapro, always an enemy of progress, i have never seen you supporting any good cause.
DWEEB

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gbengapro:

Rubbish post. silly and retrogressive law! This Lagos State Govt will go down in history as one that has caused the most damage to the construction and building industry. It's polices are anti-people and retrogressive. All the Govt is after is revenue and revenue at the expense of the people.
The effect of this law and other policies is to milk innocent lagosians and frustrate their desire to own homes. If in doubt readers try one or more of these tasks: go to alausa(seat of Govt in Lagos)
1. try to get a building permit to erect a building
2. Make effort to acquire state land
3. Make attempt to obtain consent for land bought from private party
4. Make attempt to obtain consent for residential or commercial property acquired.
Please share your experiences with fellow nairalanders

Fashola has worsened the housing problem in Lagos by inflicting serious damage on developers and home builders.
The people are suffering and descent housing is the scarcest thing in Lagos.
Yet praise singers will not let us be. They continue to insult our intelligence with posts like the above.
The people are no fools

you sound almost desperate - unlike your cohorts at pdp, fashola is not content to fold his arms and do nothing when there is a real threat to life from shoddy workmanship etal.

gbengapro was the one calling fashola a failure in another thread, i think.

wow, if that's what failure looks like, then more nigerian leaders need to be failures.