The Lagos State Government through the operatives of the Ministry of Environment and the Lagos State Building Investment Corporation, demolished illegal structures and makeshift shops within the Jakande Estate area, Oke Afa yesterday, November 1, 2016. The structures according to LASG, is used to deface the estate environment and needed to be demolished to give the estate a facelift.
Prior to the demolition, InsideMainland learnt that the structures were occupied by retirees, widows, pensioners, and other unemployed ones who had used the place for decades. Also, the residents of the estate earlier protested the planned demolition at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday, 31, October, 2016.
According to a resident, “what happened yesterday was the height of wickedness and government's insensitivity to the plight of the masses. For everyone that cares to know the truth, the demolition had nothing to do with giving the estate an up-lift.”
The resident who shared his thoughts via social media claimed that before the demolition, the revenue collection officers and the relevant agencies collect tax from the occupants of the demolished structures.
In his words, “the government called the structures illegal but ask them if LBIC and Ejigbo LCDA don't collect money from the shop owners or if LASSRA don't collect money for shop name advert. Those structures are shops that are mostly owned by pensioners or retirees and it is the only source of livelihood for most people at a period when rice is N23,000, fuel is N145 per litre and a dollar to the Naira is N475. December is around the corner and all the government can think of is to stop the only means of survival of poor masses without ....... read more here http://insidemainland.com/2016/11/02/mixed-reactions-trail-lasg-demolition-structures-jakande-ejigbo/

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