The Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development has ordered owners and occupiers of two defective buildings at Oyingbo in Mainland Local Government Area of the state to vacate the building within the next seven Days.
A statement from the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, signed by its Public Affairs Officer, Mr. Shina Odunuga, cited structural failure and imminent building collapse as reason for the order.
Odunuga said a contravention and quit notice was served by the Monitoring and Enforcement Department of the ministry, Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), on two buildings situated at No. 27 and 31 Oloto Street, Ebute- Metta.
He said it was important for the occupants to vacate the building in order to avoid imminent danger.
He explained that ministry’s Technical Services Department (TSD) noticed the physical structures of the two buildings during inspection in the axis.
Odunuga said it was also established and confirmed that the technical structure engineering test that were carried out on the two structures attested to the fact that the two structures may likely collapse any moment from now if urgent measures were not taken by concerned authorities.
“In order to avoid human causality, the ministry had issued contravention and quit notices to all the occupiers of the two buildings and invited the owners of the buildings to report at Alausa Secretariat office of the Ministry, Technical Services Department (TSD) , so that precautionary and timely measures could be taken to avert collapse,” he said.
He also informed that before the issuance of the quit notice, the two structures had been marked by officials of LASBCA in a bid to save innocent lives and properties and had also directed the owners of the buildings to take necessary corrective measures towards rehabilitation of the buildings.
He added that the owners of the buildings refused to take any positive action in order to redeem the structures from further deterioration.
Also, a structure at No 21 Muritala Muhammed Way was also marked for contravention of physical planning development laws and arbitrary conversion of building into shopping complex and the extension of the stair case to the obstruction of right of way (ROW).
He said the stair case was illegally extended beyond the walk way, adding that the ministry had since directed that the stair case be removed.
Source: The Nation
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