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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by joseph1832(m): 5:20pm On May 06

GloriousGbola:
In 2004 my company renovated multiple facilities across lagos. The then hod was pally with people in town planning and did upgrades/renovations without approval. Fast forward to 2012,we wanted to do a fresh set of upgrades. Where are your old approvals. No where to be found. We paid for the approvals and paid penalties.

On one project one of my supervisors wanted to extend beyond our boundary. It was literally taxi drivers who strated threatening him. They said they knew where the boundary was and they would go to local govt

On this same project we extended into the right of way. A year later lasbca came after us and made us take down the structures within right of way.

Contraventions and cutting of corners and trying to be smart all come with a caveat - you are always at risk with no source of legal redress.

You may get away with it if your contravention is not constituting a nuisance. But when you see literally causing floods, deaths, property and environmental damage to others.

These people should be happy lasg is not suing then for gross negligence, environmental pollution, involuntary manslaughter and aggravated property damage.

Maybe that needs to be done so people can understand

honestly, I don't ever think they'll ever learn. A foolish man, is a foolish man, irrespective of status or even position. The very reason why they say "you can take a man out of the bush, but you can't take the bush out of the man".

Many Nigerians are so ignorant and oblivious of the law, to the extent when you even enlighten them, they insult you and call you all sort of names.

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by CluelessMODS: 5:23pm On May 06

Topshow2010:

Fact and no be today sef ,na so their forefathers like Azikwe obsessed Lagos and the west so tey he formed alliance with the northerner in order to slight our Papa Awolowo which culminated to d political quagmire that olori pelebe region found themselves now

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by jahsharon: 5:24pm On May 06

seborrhic:
So why doesn't the US where houses are annually flooded due to torrential rains and severe weather events with some houses even carried away,resort to demolition of the flooded houses as the only solution?
Houses flooded,solution is demolition of such houses;thunder strikes or rains,not even heavy rains falls,solution is to immediately cut off power supply in Nigeria!

This one is mentally unstable and depressed. He is looking for a way to get drowned in flood. I advise him to jump into the Lagoon

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Pootle: 5:35pm On May 06

lagos is one of the fastest costal sinking cities the only solution is to look in land,

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by yom2(m): 5:49pm On May 06

seborrhic:
So why doesn't the US where houses are annually flooded due to torrential rains and severe weather events with some houses even carried away,resort to demolition of the flooded houses as the only solution?
Houses flooded,solution is demolition of such houses;thunder strikes or rains,not even heavy rains falls,solution is to immediately cut off power supply in Nigeria!

U are making excuses for illegality. U will also make excuses for people dumping refuse into the drainage tomorrow U still turn back to blame government

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by abysirius(m): 5:49pm On May 06

You cannot categorize a man-made issue like we have it in Mende as a force majeure. US issues are natural disasters that are beyond human control.

seborrhic:
So why doesn't the US where houses are annually flooded due to torrential rains and severe weather events with some houses even carried away,resort to demolition of the flooded houses as the only solution?
Houses flooded,solution is demolition of such houses;thunder strikes or rains,not even heavy rains falls,solution is to immediately cut off power supply in Nigeria!

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Wotowotoman: 5:52pm On May 06

seborrhic:
So why doesn't the US where houses are annually flooded due to torrential rains and severe weather events with some houses even carried away,resort to demolition of the flooded houses as the only solution?
Houses flooded,solution is demolition of such houses;thunder strikes or rains,not even heavy rains falls,solution is to immediately cut off power supply in Nigeria!

Please how old are you? 🤔

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by StOla: 6:11pm On May 06

FireUpNow:

You be old Mende boy. I remember those days in secondary school. That kpako bridge that linked Mende to Ojota. That's where we used to cross when going to Ojota. I don't like the sandfiling. I remember cedato bakery owner who built a high rise building near the canal and the house entered the ground leaving only the top floor. My beautiful Mende has been destroyed.

Na dat Cedato man suffer pass. Even when the building was just completed, it was already tilting backwards.

And to think he left his former house near the bakery at the main swamp area, only to move upwards a little at the end of that Ajose Street, yet what he escaped still caught up with him.

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by grandstar(m): 6:16pm On May 06

Everlastingson:

Stop defending evil. Sanwolu has done nothing other than destroying Igbo owned houses and properties in Lagos since after the 2023 Elections for the simple racist reason that the Igbo didn't vote for him. In this harsh Tinubu economy all you could think of is destroying people's livelihood. Your reward awaits you.

It has nothing to do with tribe.

Sanwo-olu is now in his second term so can take unpopular tasks now. He isn't up for re-election.

Tinubu too is doing same. He seems he wants to wait till his second term to remove the petrol subsidy once and for all by deregulating the price. If he does it now, it might affect his changes at re-election.

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by YoungBlackRico(m): 6:31pm On May 06

YemyTemmy:

Is it that you dont have wisdom or you dont understand English

Isn't it obvious him and his likes are lacking on both front?

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by FireUpNow(m): 6:59pm On May 06

StOla:

Na dat Cedato man suffer pass. Even when the building was just completed, it was already tilting backwards.

And to think he left his former house near the bakery at the main swamp area, only to move upwards a little at the end of that Ajose Street, yet what he escaped still caught up with him.

Too bad. I was in Ofoh street off Oki lane. We used to go fishing too in that area. Some hunters always come to that little forest behind that Cedato building to kill animals. I guess that Cedato made some cash then that tuned his head.

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by MsOnyi24(f): 7:21pm On May 06

CommonSense1967:

Pls get lost and don't come back. We could care less about how you feel. Your feelings are inconsequential and irrelevant.
If you dish out hate to others, you better expect hate to hit you back in the face. We are just getting started.
If you think that we will allow you to demonize us as you did to the Fulanis during the Buhari admin, then you must be smoking Mk puru mirri.
All tribes are hitting back at you not just Yorubas because of your ways. You always start something, then when others give it back, you start to play the victimhood slave card. In the same way, you started a war then when you lost, you start to blame others.

No tribe is even close to the Igbos when it comes to tribal and religious discrimination. It's in your DNA.

Get lost and don't come back.

I am nobody's victim punk, no body gives a flying f __k about you or your tribe.
Let me tell you something about your dirty tribe people.
You are so loud and uncouth, dirty and smelly.
It is the people who managed to spend their hard earned cash in that overrated slum called Lagos that I blame.
They are the ones given you the guts to spill trash everywhere.
Are you jealous that all the mansions below to everyone else other than the Yoruba's. hehehehe
Chock on you angry with your dirty saliva than stinks like infected urine.
Again - I am nobody's victim PUNK.

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by MsOnyi24(f): 7:22pm On May 06

Jonjam269:

Stop wailing obirodent miscreant, nobody cares whatever you think about your master and tormentor the great Yoruba race.

Let me tell you something about your dirty tribe people.
You are so loud and uncouth, dirty and smelly.
It is the people who managed to spend their hard earned cash in that overrated slum called Lagos that I blame.
They are the ones given you the guts to spill trash everywhere.
Are you jealous that all the mansions below to everyone else other than the Yoruba's. hehehehe
Chock on you angry with your dirty saliva than stinks like infected urine.

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Port443: 7:31pm On May 06

sparko1:
Sometimes read, so you don't look this stupid.

Stupid fool has dropped quote grin

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by CommonSense1967: 7:37pm On May 06

MsOnyi24:

I am nobody's victim punk, no body gives a flying f __k about you or your tribe.
Let me tell you something about your dirty tribe people.
You are so loud and uncouth, dirty and smelly.
It is the people who managed to spend their hard earned cash in that overrated slum called Lagos that I blame.
They are the ones given you the guts to spill trash everywhere.
Are you jealous that all the mansions below to everyone else other than the Yoruba's. hehehehe
Chock on you angry with your dirty saliva than stinks like infected urine.
Again - I am nobody's victim PUNK.

Incoherent and irrational ranting of a delusional brainwashed IPOB retard. take your inconsequential attention-seeking nonentity and go jump inside the Lagos lagoon. Your views and opinions of us are as useless as fart, we don't give a flying fvck what you think grin

GET LOST with your VICTIM slave mentality. Take your kobo kobo investment and get the fvck out of my land. You are polluting the air, we need fresh air. Overpopulation is not a development to me. GET LOST and pls don't come back. We don't need you.

BYE

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by REDshouse(m): 7:48pm On May 06

DMerciful:
Building of houses takes one month? How come these houses were built for years and the authorities are only realizing after 2023 elections?

And how come the builder won't do due diligence before building, most times the developer believes they can easily bribe their way anytime govt officials come on inspection but little did they know that a day will come where a new government will come to enforce every dot on the masterplan

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Yampotatocarrot(m): 7:51pm On May 06

naptu2:
September 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em_lEXaE4U4?si=yWVavjQ8l3WCy94K

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Na person wey never reach that Mende side go dey complain... Government dey pity them sef, they suppose demolish EVERY HOUSE ALONG THAT AXIS

Thank God for the flood control Deeper Life church did around their headquarters, if not, e for be for some houses that side

I think it's about people thinking because they have the money, they can build anyhow... As I'm talking to you now, go to New garage area in Oworo, some are doing exactly the same thing

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by DMerciful(m): 8:00pm On May 06

If its one or two houses, I'll blame developers but when its everywhere in the state, I'll blame government!

REDshouse:

And how come the builder won't do due diligence before building, most times the developer believes they can easily bribe their way anytime govt officials come on inspection but little did they know that a day will come where a new government will come to enforce every dot on the masterplan

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by REDshouse(m): 8:06pm On May 06

DMerciful:
If its one or two houses, I'll blame developers but when its everywhere in the state, I'll blame government!

it's not all it's just that it is in our DNA to always find any means to cut corners ... Who is government....

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by dealslip(f): 8:07pm On May 06

seborrhic:
So why doesn't the US where houses are annually flooded due to torrential rains and severe weather events with some houses even carried away,resort to demolition of the flooded houses as the only solution?
Houses flooded,solution is demolition of such houses;thunder strikes or rains,not even heavy rains falls,solution is to immediately cut off power supply in Nigeria!

Pray that Nigeria doesn't experience the kind of hurricane that America experiences. The entire Nigeria will be wiped out. Hurricane is different from rain oh!

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Yampotatocarrot(m): 8:12pm On May 06

Damn, that commissioner sounds intelligent... The way the honourable was humble, I guess he has a lot of houses in that axis

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by DMerciful(m): 8:20pm On May 06

What do you think the executive an of government does? To enforce the laws.

If you tell me that government is just getting to know that houses over lagos state that have exsited for about 10yrs or more are just realizing they were blocking drainage route then I'll say you're not been truthful

REDshouse:
it's not all it's just that it is in our DNA to always find any means to cut corners ... Who is government....

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Konquest: 8:35pm On May 06

StOla:
Mende wey I know like the back of my hand.

Many built houses that later sank into the ground.

Pako bridge linking Mende at Ajose street to Ojota, used to have a house that only the top window of the 1st floor was still above the ground. It eventually got demolished and the mechanics around there expanded their workshop over it.

All the canal pathway within Mende has been turned into one estate or the other. In those days, you will stand on the ground near the swamp area of Mende, and the ground will be bouncing.

Same thing applied to Arowojobe Estate in Mende, but people kept on sandfilling the swamps and building houses like no man's business.

Gone are the days Alligators used to be found in the canal areas of Mende

That's interesting. The bolded paragraphs indeed give cause for concern if the natural canal pathways have been blocked, I guess right from the 1970s. The Arowojobe Estates history of evolution in intriguing as well from being reclaimed from soggy swampland.

Indeed, crocs and huge pythons still exist in the swampy deep valley that crisscrosses the Maryland axis leading to the back of Sheraton Hotel in between Opebi then bursting out between Allen Avenue and Kudirat Abiola Way, Oregun, Ikeja down to the Omole Estate axis.

Matter of fact, crocs were discovered in the same swampland continuum at the posh Omole Estate Phase 2 in 2014, and at River View Estate in Isheri directly on the Ogun and Lagos States border.

=>https://www.nairaland.com/1579771/huge-crocodile-captured-omole-estate

=>https://www.legit.ng/1270819-crocodiles-wild-animals-invade-ogun-community.html

What remains of the swamplands in Lagos and Ogun States are the vestiges of the vast forests that existed before massive deforestations started taking place for housing and road constructions over the decades.

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Konquest: 8:52pm On May 06

FireUpNow:

You be old Mende boy. I remember those days in secondary school. That kpako bridge that linked Mende to Ojota. That's where we used to cross when going to Ojota. I don't like the sandfiling. I remember cedato bakery owner who built a high rise building near the canal and the house entered the ground leaving only the top floor. My beautiful Mende has been destroyed.

@The bolded.

Omo! shocked

"A high rise building near the canal sank into the ground leaving ONLY the top floor."

@FireUpNow, how many floors was the high rise building owned by the Cedato Bakery owner?

Folks must learn punishing lessons from here on out due to lack of due diligence.

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by REDshouse(m): 8:59pm On May 06

DMerciful:
What do you think the executive an of government does? To enforce the laws.

If you tell me that government is just getting to know that houses over lagos state that have exsited for about 10yrs or more are just realizing they were blocking drainage route then I'll say you're not been truthful

and what happen when govt realize that some errors have been made in d past and want to erase it now ...

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Konquest: 9:03pm On May 06

GloriousGbola:
In 2004 my company renovated multiple facilities across lagos. The then hod was pally with people in town planning and did upgrades/renovations without approval. Fast forward to 2012,we wanted to do a fresh set of upgrades. Where are your old approvals. No where to be found. We paid for the approvals and paid penalties.

On one project one of my supervisors wanted to extend beyond our boundary. It was literally taxi drivers who strated threatening him. They said they knew where the boundary was and they would go to local govt

On this same project we extended into the right of way. A year later lasbca came after us and made us take down the structures within right of way.

Contraventions and cutting of corners and trying to be smart all come with a caveat - you are always at risk with no source of legal redress.

You may get away with it if your contravention is not constituting a nuisance. But when you are literally causing floods, deaths, property and environmental damage to others?

These people should be happy lasg is not suing then for gross negligence, environmental pollution, involuntary manslaughter and aggravated property damage.

Maybe that needs to be done so people can understand

Tbh, the last two paragraphs of yours clearly sum up what has to be done. Lagos State has the smallest land area among the states in Nigeria and yet these contraventions have been taking place relentlessly right from the decades of Military rule till this period. People have to start getting punished to serve as a deterant to others.

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by DMerciful(m): 9:14pm On May 06

Then they must pay adequate compensation including relocation to government estates if possible.

REDshouse:
and what happen when govt realize that some errors have been made in d past and want to erase it now ...

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by showwiggy: 9:14pm On May 06

christejames:
Anything to justify the dastardly act by Lagos state govt...

Days of recompense is coming!

Are you this daft?

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Konquest: 9:14pm On May 06

naptu2:
Yemi Alade made the following complaint and said that the residents were only given 2 hours notice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CWb12XgweA?si=SDL_i0Nw_lkuAyLT

Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs

(He provides video evidence)

Yemi Alade @yemialadee

Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs

This Yemi Alade girl is just trying to be politically correct with her uninformed rants in the video here. I detest it when people like this speak ignorantly without having FACTS and hence mislead their online followers and the public. Everything she said in the video was absolute B.S.

She got an appropriate response, from Jubril Gawat there with all the evidence showing that many people she was defending in that video were warned earlier going to 3 years now for contravening the building codes and building on non-government approved lands.

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Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Konquest: 9:19pm On May 06

naptu2:
Tokunboh Wahab @tokunboh_wahab

[Throwback]

On 21st of December, 2023, the leadership of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources held ANOTHER stakeholder meeting with Honourable member representing Kosofe 1 State Constituency at @lshaofficial, Hon. Sanni Ganiyu, and the property owners of structures built on the alignment of System 1 midstream (Odo Iyalaro - Mende - Ojota - Ogudu reach) following several other meetings held previously.

Here (video attached), the property owners confirmed that they do not have valid documents and have been served several contravention notices.

The Ministry have always engaged stakeholders and give notices before any action is taken.

#ZeroToleranceLagos #CleanerLagos

@jidesanwoolu @drobafemihamzat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Jt4lqlSQM?si=1x_R5PoYsNExd7it

Please do everything you can to watch the short clip above. Listen to what the residents said and listen to what the commissioner said.

A very insightful video.

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by Viccur(m): 9:53pm On May 06

There is a building like this in Ibadan, close to Owu crown hotel in iworoad. I just hope no one stays there by the time it goes down.

Re: The Flood That Led To The Demolition In Mende by YemyTemmy: 11:02pm On May 06

Everlastingson:

Whether the flooding was caused by natural or man induced rain is not the issue here. The point is that you Yoruba are looking for cover to undo the Igbo in Lagos for no reason other than morbid and delusional fear that the " Igbo is taking over your land". Igbo cannot take over Yoruba land because it's not even possible. Neither is any Igbo man nursing such untoward feeling.

The house demolished in Mende belongs to a Yoruba man, why are you crying more than the bereaved?

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