LASG to monitor, restore govt property to original plans
- Begins monitoring of Lekki, Magodo converted property
The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako has assured of its commitment to restore government residential schemes in the state to their original plans.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Mukaila Sanusi, titled ‘LASG sets to enforce converted properties in government schemes.”
The statement announced that Lagos would commence a week-long monitoring and enforcement exercise in Lekki Peninsula Scheme I and Magodo Residential Scheme I and II, focusing on those who had indiscriminately converted their buildings from residential to commercial.
Salako lamented that government schemes which ought to remain residential with provision for services as planned had been bastardised some of the residents by indiscriminate conversion of buildings from residential to commercial.
He explained that if the pervasive lawlessness in the estates were allowed to continue, the future would spell doom for the carefully designed upper-income residential schemes.
According to him, well-meaning residents had inundated the state government with complaints and sought a redress of the untoward situation.
The Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, he said had engaged and dialogued with residents of the estates severally with a view to redressing the wrongs.
The commissioner disclosed that engagements with Magodo Phases I and II Residents Association produced the Revised Magodo Scheme I and II which has since become effective.
He pledged that indiscriminate conversion of government schemes from residential to commercial would not be tolerated in Lagos State and urged defaulters to prepare for the ministry’s enforcement activities.
He declared that monitoring and enforcement team will be visiting all other government schemes for similar action in due course and warned residents to take a cue from this by desisting from undue conversion of properties without approval of the appropriate authorities.