Housing Authority Plans Illegal Structures Demolition In PH

The Rivers State
Housing and Property Development Authority (RSHPDA), is to embark on demolition of all illegal structures at the Elekahia Housing Estate in Port Harcourt.
Making this known to The Tide in a chat in his office in Port Harcourt, the General Manager of RSHPDA, Architect I.S. CookeyGam, said that the rate at which some residents of the Elekahia Housing Estate had defaced the environment was alarming.
He said that some people had converted the open spaces which should be available for use to other people for the building of illegal structure.
According to him, the rules on the running of the estate made it clear that everybody should have free access, but expressed worries on how this had been neglected.
He said, “we are to demolish all non-permissible illegal structures at the estate.  We have six houses in a block of a storey building at the estate.  By our rule in the estate, everybody should have free access.  The open spaces should be available to all occupants, out some have shared the open spaces among themselves, while some have deprived others of the open space”.
The General Manager posited that RSHPDA had taken time to assess the issue, and has discovered that there were structures that cannot be tolerated.
He said his organisation had prepared comprehensive list of such illegal structures, and that the parties involved had been served adequate notice, adding that such structures had been marked for demolition.
Cookey-Gam posited that the demolition exercise would be carried out anytime from now, and  advised occupants of the estate to remove all the illegal structures.
He also urged residents not to disrupt or obstruct the officials of government who would be assigned the demolition of those structures, warning of consequences for such rude behavior.
The housing authority boss restated the commitment of the state government to ensure that the Elekahia estate environment was clean.

Corlins Walter