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Lekki airport: Pay us before demolition, Ajah residents tell LASG

Property owners and tenants in the Ajiwe community of Ajah, Lagos State, have appealed to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the state to halt the demolition of their houses for infrastructure projects until they receive due compensation.

They claimed that their property had been slated for demolition to make way for the Gas Link pipeline and Green Line Rail projects, integral components for the new Lagos Airport under development in the Ibeju Lekki area of the state.

The affected landlords and tenants, who staged a protest on Abraham Adesanya express road, weekend, displayed placards, some of which read: “We say no to Gas Link and Green Line Rail projects demolition of our properties without Compensation,” “Our properties cannot be demolished without Compensation,” “Compensate us,” among others.

Spokesman for the protesters, Kehinde Alakoso, said the projects served an overriding public purpose, as stipulated by law, but stressed the need to consider the human cost.

Alakoso said: “We have written to the state governor, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Oluyinka Olumide, and other relevant people in the state. Despite these communications and a meeting with the commissioner in April 2025 where compensation assurances were given, no concrete plans have materialized.”

Lamenting the impact of the project since work began in November last year, he stated: “Since pipeline laying started last November, they have blocked entrances to a lot of businesses. These businesses are crumbling and property owners and tenants are living in fear of the unknown and incursion onto their properties.”

Highlighting the legal basis for their demand, Alakoso stressed: “We acquired these properties legitimately and they have title documents.”

The law says you can publicly acquire people’s property, but you should make provision for compensation. They must put a human face to what they are doing; let us know how you want to compensate the people.”

Also, General Secretary of the Odugbese Ajereongbe Chieftaincy family and a representative of affected Ajiwe landlords, Ahmed Ajanaku, said that the government’s promise at a stakeholders’ meeting held at the Swiss Hotel, Victoria Garden City, VGC was not kept.

Another affected tenant, Prince Olanshile Mogaji, representing occupants of Top Notch Plaza since 2004, pleaded for due process and respect.

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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/07/lekki-airport-pay-us-before-demolition-ajah-residents-tell-lasg/

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(The Economist)

Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.

Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.

The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.

'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.

"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.

"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.

He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.

''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.

''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.

''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.

The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.

From: http://www.punchng.com/politics/lawm...rporation-low/
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=mes_capstones;Ensuring

Softmirror:
When Yaradua was governor of Katsina State. A lot of people were praying that his projects should claim their properties particularly those in the rural area because he compensated them very generously.

Sensitivity:
As it should be.
Ronus are coming to defend their master

IbnB:
Get a lawyer go to court and stop the construction until they pay y'all

iamrealdeji:
Northerners have fear of Allah. That's why they're the best people in this country

Sabadon:
hahahahahha the people are wiser, before them go put them for one chance

YeyeGbami:
2 Airports inside this Lagos, okay laa make we dey obs.

Anijay1212:
Sometimes i find it difficult to understand how people that are fortunate to be in power think.
What stops them from compensating and or relocating the people affected by this projects before they begin construction. Sometimes it really makes me to wonder if it is as a result of wickedness, stupidity, ignorance or just plain indifference.
It really baffles and confuses me i swear.