Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) and its agents have been sued by tenants of a property at 118, Apapa Road, Ebute-Metta (West), Lagos.

According to the tenants, in their memorandum filed under Order 3 Rule 2 (E) of the Lagos State High Court Rules, police officers were sent by LASBCA to forcefully eject them without due process.

The tenants stated that a court restraining order for LASBCA to maintain status quo pending compliance with Lagos State High Court Practice Direction No. 2 of 2019 on pre-action protocols was disobeyed by the agency.

They said LASBCA served a contravention notice for a distressed structure and a sealing order on December 3 without prior inspection of the property.

The plaintiffs included Adebayo Ibraheem, Monsuru Agbalaya, Iwelu Nkechi, Abdullahi Ashiru, Taibat Abdulsallam, and Ibrahim Alao.

The tenants had filed an ex-parte application dated November 20, to restrain the LASBCA from demolishing the property pending compliance with the pre-action protocol.