Lagos To Commence Removal Of Illegal Building Extensions In Two Weeks

The Lagos State Government is ready to begin the removal of illegal building attachments and conversions across the state in two weeks.

This was revealed by the state Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Oluyinka Olumide, in a statement issued on Wednesday.

He frowned at the practice of illegally converting residential to commercial premises and unduly erecting attachments to buildings, describing that it was high time for sanity and orderliness to reign across the state.

He said, “The state would not tolerate the spate of lawlessness witnessed in commercial centres such as Lagos Island, Ikeja, and Iyana-Ipaja, where shops are illegally extended with sheds and steel external stairways in a bid to attract customers.”

Olumide gave a two-week ultimatum for owners of illegal extensions to remove them, failing which the State Government would begin statewide demolition of such structures, precisely on 15th February, effective from Lagos Island.

Similarly, the commissioner asked those who erected structures within the right of way of power lines, canals, and pipelines to prepare for massive enforcement by the ministry in two weeks’ time.

He maintained that the government would stop at nothing to ensure a livable and sustainable built environment.