LASG Issues Ultimatum To 500 Defective Buildings’ Owners

The Lagos State
Government has issued a 90-day ultimatum, which will expire by June 3, 2016, to owners of 500 defective buildings which were identified as distressed and abandoned.
According to available information released to The Tide, the Lagos State commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr Wasiu Anitowoshe, made this plan of the government known during a media parley in Ikeja, recently.
He said, “we have published over 500 distressed and abandoned buildings, we identified them and have evacuated the occupants and also sealed up the buildings. The buildings we have identified are the ones we know as dangerous for habitation and we have given the owners three months ultimatum to correct, the errors and by June 3, 2016, the ultimatum will expire”.
According to the information, the commissioner said, government is determined to curb building collapse in the state by adopting compulsory integrity rest of building and construction materials in conjunction with the Lagos State Materials Testing Laboratory (LSMTL).
He said his ministry would remove illegal and non-conforming buildings, inspect and certify various stages of building construction and carry out evaluations of on-going and completed projects, while they continue to comb the city to identify and remove distressed and dilapidated buildings.
Anitowashe stated that the state was committed to preventing building collapse and protecting lives, saying, “no developer will be allowed to put peoples’ lives at risk and developers who engage in illegal development will face the full wrath of the law and forfeit such property to government”.