LASBCA vows to demolish buildings without permit


The Lagos State Government, through the Lagos State Building Control Agency, has taken a firm stance on demolishing buildings that lack the necessary building plan permits.

The agency’s General Manager, Gbolahan Oki, made this vow during a press briefing with journalists on Friday.

He said, “My duty is for any property without a building plan approval, of which I would have to serve all the necessary notices, and once these notices are served without anyone providing a document to that effect, it means that property is an illegal structure.

“This issue has been going on around Ogombo, Eti-Osa area of the state in the last 5 years, and I have been on it for one and a half year. Hence, we are doing the needful by removing the illegal structures because the government must perform their duty.”

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Speaking on the demolition of some of the properties located at Ogombo, the LABSCA boss said most of the structures were shanties.

“80-90 per cent are shanties and between 5 – 10 structures at Ogombo are without building plan approval,” he noted.

While decrying the issue of land grabbers disturbing government officials in doing their job at Ogombo, Eti-Osa area of the state, he noted that irrespective of the notices, the land grabbers had continued to build on the land owned by the state government and meant for housing.

He declared, “We have been on Ogombo, Eti-Osa area of the state for over 5 – 10 years. It is a land owned by the state government and meant for housing.

“The land grabbers keep going there to disturb the government officials, sell the lands, and continue to build on those lands meant for the state government, some even come with a fake Certificate of Occupancy.

“We have to stop this act and note that land grabbers are not bigger than the government or the people and we really need to curb them.”

Oki, thereafter, urged that proper due diligence process be conducted before a property is bought.

“When due diligence is conducted, the legal practitioner involved in documenting the agreement would be able to decipher the status of the property,” he concluded.

Morbeta11:

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alamscolo:
That's only what we see them do, do you make these permits cheap to be obtained?

And why are they multiple agencies for same structure, doing the same thing, from same state government

latonione:
Clean up Lagos and get rid of slumps as quick as possible

kayone2:
Another indirect attack on Igbos?

How did you allow buildings without permit to spring up in the first place?

Nigeria must grow past this wastefulness and nonchalant impoverishment of the people.

Developed countries would rather do anything to prevent you from erecting the structure than coming later to demolish a whole building

FireUpNow:

Clean up Lagos ke? I was at Ikeja some months back near computer village and it rained that day, if you see the way flood was everywhere, you will know that Lagos is is a slum. Even where Sanwo Olu is living is a slum. So forget all that you said. The govt is just making more people homeless wnd poorer