Unease As 1004 Estate Resident Decry Decline in Standard

If the information available is anything to go by,the once, rosy beautiful and well maintained 1004 Estate formerly called 1004 Flats,located in Victoria Island is now mired in a shadow of its once celebrated glory.

Sections of aggrieved residents have in recent time channeled their grievances over the appalling state of the Estate known to the public through various circulations on the social media.

Yet, others such as Messrs Akintunde Adeboye and Avinash as well as Mrs Olajumoke have taken it further by physical contact with a combined statement of their grievances.

In the combined statement titled"Why This Inhumanity and Wickedness On Residents?",one of the complaining residents,Mr Akintunde Adeboye explained that he invested into the Estate in 2006 with the purchase of a 3-Bedroom apartment as a retirement plan to sustain a quality life.He maintained that the Estate then provided 24/7 electricity, clean potable water, functional lifts and that all the services were run with efficient management.

He averred that trouble began when a vicious group which called itself Home Owners & Residents Association took over management of the Estate, promising to lower service charges, but rather later increased service fees incessantly, accompanied with harsh penalties.

Since then, according to the statement,the Estate had deteriorated rapidly with the service charges nearly quadrupled and the Estate torn apart by leadership crisis.

Infrastructure breakdown list provided by them include non- functional generators, sewage issues, broken down lifts and filthy, unhygienic environment.For illustration,4 out of the 5 generators were either burnt down or run aground, leaving the only one serviceable unable to power the Estate.Similarly,80% of the high rise lifts have not been working.The building blocks are faded and decayed because they have not been painted in a long while.Worsestill,are insecurity issues arising from wrong placement of maintenance scaffolds that give unauthorised entry to miscreants to come into the Estate to rob the residents of their property.In the same vein, all the swimming pools are broken down at the moment despite purported huge yearly maintenance contract sums paid by the residents to fix them.

The statement added that the quantum service charges were allegedly misappropriated and complained that in the last 3 years, they had been levied N100k,N200k and N300k for the refurbishment of the Estate and its heavy machinery by the Exco officials of the Association, with very little improvement to show for it.
They alleged lack of transparency in financial accounts whilst any demand asking for accountability was met with utility service disconnection.

The aggrieved residents revealed that there was a general resentment towards the current management team, adding that most of the residents had resolved to break free from what they perceived as unjust treatment.In as much as they have equal rights as the Exco officials as co-owners, they don't see any reason why they should be treated as slaves and be subjected to all manners of payments.They concluded that they were unwilling to keep paying this group for absent services, having experienced continued decline in their property values and the good quality of life they once enjoyed.

Lol….back then I always envied people that live in 1004

Badonasty:
Lol….back then I always envied people that live in 1004

It is really no longer as it used to be before mehn