Occupants move to reoccupy distressed five-floor building in defiance of court
23 May 2022 |
3:19 am
Barely a week after Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) evacuated occupants of a distressed five-floor building located at 13/17 Breadfruit Street, Lagos Island, some of them have tried to enter the building...
Barely a week after Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) evacuated occupants of a distressed five-floor building located at 13/17 Breadfruit Street, Lagos Island, some of them have tried to enter the building in breach of court ordered evacuation.
LASBCA had, on Monday May 16, evacuated occupants of the distressed building in compliance with court order for it to be re-stabilised or face demolition as directed by the stability report of the Lagos State Materials Testing Laboratory (LSMTL) submitted to the court.
In a ruling delivered on May 13, 2022 in the suit filed by Attorney General of Lagos State against African Alliance Insurance and 13 others, a Special Offences Court in Ikeja had directed LASBCA to evacuate the occupants to implement a Non-Destructive Test (NDT) report.
The trial magistrate, A.I Abina , also directed that the NDT report implementation, which includes a total renovation of the building, be carried out, while considering the interest of other defendants/ occupants.
But moments after the agency executed the court ruling, last week, and left the premises, some of the occupants in company of military officers came back to re-occupy the building and when that failed, they rushed to Police Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (CIID) Alagbon to seek assistance to re-occupy the property and frustrate the renovation of the property.
By their actions, the traders risk being arrested and charged for contempt of court. The occupants, according to averments made in court had similarly disregarded an earlier interim order made on October 25, 2021, to evacuate and seal off the distressed building for safety purposes when they broke the government seal on the property, re-occupy the same and continued to trade in their goods there.
Before the latest development, the Lagos Planning Permit Authority had on August 6, 2020 granted renovation permit to owners of the property, African Alliance Assurance Co Ltd.
Also on September 28, 2020, LASBCA granted permission to the same owner to commence construction works on the property. But efforts to commence renovation and re-stabilisation of the structure have continued to be frustrated by some of the occupants whose sub-tenancies have expired.
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