The Lagos State Government is set to commence the removal of illegal building attachments and conversion across the state. Officials disclosed that this would in two weeks from now.
This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Oluyinka Olumide, in Alausa on Wednesday, January 31, 2024.
He frowned at the unwholesome practice of illegally converting residential to commercial premises and unduly erecting attachments to buildings, saying that it was high time for sanity and orderliness to reign across the state.
He maintained that 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.
He gave a two-week ultimatum for owners of illegal extensions to remove them, failing which the state government would commence statewide demolition of such structures, precisely on February 15, starting from the Lagos Island.
In the same vein, the Commissioner asked those who erected structures within the Right of Way of powerlines, canals, and pipelines to prepare for a massive enforcement by the ministry in two weeks’ time.
He stressed that the government would stop at nothing to ensure a liveable and sustainable built environment.
